Senior IT Cyber Defense Analyst

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🔥 51 minutes ago

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧐 Analyst

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Harris Computer

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1993

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Harris Computer is a company that provides mission-critical software solutions across various industries, including the public sector, healthcare, utilities, and private sector verticals. They focus on acquiring businesses with growth potential, managing them effectively, and building them for future success. Harris Computer serves over 100,000 customers with a global presence in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, employing over 12,000 people. Their mission is to empower customers to deliver on their goals by offering tailored software and services.

📋 Description

• Lead SOC shift operations, prioritize alerts, manage escalations, and ensure timely handovers and SLA adherence • Investigate complex incidents involving phishing, malware, ransomware, compromised accounts, endpoint threats, and suspicious network activity • Conduct threat hunting, correlate security telemetry, and map attacker behavior to the MITRE ATT&CK framework • Develop, optimize, and troubleshoot SIEM queries, analytics rules, and detection use cases using Microsoft Sentinel and KQL • Use approved AI/LLM tools for alert triage, investigation assistance, threat intelligence enrichment, KQL development, incident reporting, and workflow automation; independently validate AI-generated outputs • Automate repetitive SOC tasks using Python, PowerShell, APIs, or SOAR capabilities • Mentor analysts, improve investigation quality, reduce false positives, and maintain accurate incident documentation and audit-ready evidence • Coordinate with Incident Response, IT, Endpoint, Network, and Cloud teams to support containment, remediation, and recovery • Deliver effective shift leadership and timely, high-quality incident handling • Improve detection coverage, investigation efficiency, and reduce false positives • Drive practical adoption of AI and automation while maintaining security, accuracy, and human oversight • Support analyst development, documentation, and operational consistency

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience • 5+ years of experience in SOC, cyber defense, or incident response, including shift leadership, incident coordination, or analyst mentoring • Strong hands-on experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, incident investigation, and threat detection • Proficiency in Microsoft Sentinel and KQL; experience with Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, or similar security platforms • Strong understanding of networking, Windows/Linux, identity security, email threats, and MITRE ATT&CK • Mandatory practical AI/LLM proficiency, including prompt engineering, AI-assisted investigations, validation of AI-generated queries/scripts, and awareness of hallucinations, prompt injection, and data privacy risks • Scripting or automation experience using Python, PowerShell, APIs, or SOAR tools • Strong analytical, communication, decision-making, and team leadership skills • Willingness to work in a 24/7 rotational shift environment • Certifications such as Microsoft SC-200, CompTIA CySA+, GCIH, or relevant SIEM/EDR vendor certifications • Experience in proactive threat hunting, detection engineering, cloud security, and SOC process improvement

🏖️ Benefits

• 24/7 rotational shifts • AI-enabled security operations environment • Mentoring and analyst development opportunities