Job Overview

Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst

We are currently looking for an experienced Sr./Lead Cybersecurity Analyst interested in joining our Cybersecurity Incident Response team – triaging, investigating, and responding to internal cyber threats and incidents while helping to improve our overall security capabilities. This role needs to be able to communicate and collaborate professionally  with other members of the organization. 

Technologies you may work with include

• Security Incident and Event Management (Splunk ES, ELK or similar)
• Network Intrusion Detection Systems 
• Endpoint detection and response
• Digital Forensics and Incident Response tools
• Most operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
• Public cloud/PaaS (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Virtualization and Containers (VMware, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar)

Your Day-to-Day

• Host/network based forensic investigations
• Managing incoming queues of detection alerts, threat reports and security incidents
• Triaging and prioritizing competing incidents to maintain Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Managing investigations including organizing unstructured work and engaging resources across the company
• Managing urgency and visibility to ensure timely response by all involved parties
• Owning an incident for it’s full lifecycle, including after action reviews and follow up actions
• Communication and coordination with internal teams
• Rotating on-call coverage
• Quarterly mentoring/training shift rotation
• Maintain current knowledge of tools and best-practices in advanced persistent threats; tools, techniques, and procedures of attackers; and forensics and incident response

What You Bring To The Team

• Advanced experience with Cybersecurity Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Timeline Analysis and/or related topics
• Experience with malware analysis, investigations and/or network analysis
• Experience or knowledge of current information security solutions and technologies, including cloud, network and host based products
• Effective and efficient investigative skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including a focus on providing continuous, proactive communications to management, peers, and stakeholders while working on incidents
• Ability and willingness to continually learn and hone cybersecurity skills
• Ability to mentor, lead and cross train peers
• Cybersecurity certifications preferred (e.g. CISSP, Sec+, SANS/GIAC)
• Master’s degree or 3-5 years relevant cybersecurity experience preferred

ABOUT NIELSEN

By connecting clients to audiences, we fuel the media industry with the most accurate understanding of what people listen to and watch. To discover what audiences love, we measure across all channels and platforms⁠—from podcasts to streaming TV to social media. And when companies and advertisers are truly connected to their audiences, they can see the most important opportunities and accelerate growth.

Do you want to move the industry forward with Nielsen? Our people are the driving force. Your thoughts, ideas and expertise can propel us forward. Whether you have fresh thinking around maximizing a new technology or you see a gap in the market, we are here to listen and take action. Our team is made strong by a diversity of thoughts, experiences, skills, and backgrounds. You’ll enjoy working with smart, fun, curious colleagues, who are passionate about their work. Come be part of a team that motivates you to do your best work!  

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.

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