Incident Response Analyst (Threat Response)
Join us as we pursue our vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers. At Splunk, we’re committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most importantly to each other’s success. Learn more about Splunk careers and how you can become a part of our journey!
Role:
The Splunk Threat Response Incident Response Analyst works with the Security Operations Center Shift Lead, aligned with our United States-based shifts. The role is located in Costa Rica. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting our response to cyber security threats. You will also contribute to a variety of supporting security operations projects, including automation, detection creation, threat hunting, and more. You will have a foundational understanding of Information Security and Information Technology principles and disciplines coupled with excellent communications skills and a continuous desire to learn and grow. We are a passionate team who has fun, enjoys a good laugh, but above all else thinks security first.
Responsibilities:
- Perform various tasks required to support the 24x7 operation helping to improve documentation, building processes, and enrichment of security events within the Splunk Enterprise Security platform. This is a shift-based 4 days per week, 10-hour shift position.
- Contribute to new and ongoing security projects across automation, threat hunting, and detection creation and tuning
- Improve the quality of searches to enrich data with critical information.
- Gather evidence to support the organization's compliance and control monitoring responsibilities
- Review and update existing runbooks to ensure optimal and efficient response actions
- Assist in the development of new searches to find malicious activity in the Splunk environment
- Validate existing data sources meet data quality standards
Requirements:
- Two to five years of experience working in a Security Operations Center or equivalent environment
- Foundational knowledge of security related technologies including firewalls, intrusion detection systems and endpoint security tools
- Foundational knowledge of TCP/IP protocols, network analysis, and the OSI framework
- Foundational knowledge of endpoint and server systems administration
- Foundational knowledge of Cloud technologies
- Foundational proficiency in Python and Go, with additional knowledge of PowerShell and Bash preferred
- Ability to multitask, prioritize and take-charge
- Willingness and desire to think outside of the box for creative solutions to problems with the moxie to follow-through
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good attention to detail
We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
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About Splunk
Splunk was founded to pursue a disruptive new vision: make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. Machine data is one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of big data—generated by every component of IT infrastructures, applications, mobile phone location data, website clickstreams, social data, sensors, RFID and much more.
Splunk is focused specifically on the challenges and opportunity of taking massive amounts of machine data, and providing powerful insights from that data. IT insights. Security insights. Business insights. It’s what we call Operational Intelligence.
Since shipping its software in 2006, Splunk now has over 13,000 customers in more than 110 countries around the world. These organizations are using Splunk to harness the power of their machine data to deepen business and customer understanding, mitigate cybersecurity risk, prevent fraud, improve service performance and reduce costs. Innovation is in our DNA – from technology to the way we do business. Splunk is the platform for Operational Intelligence!
Splunk has more than 2,700 global employees, with headquarters in San Francisco, an office in San Jose, CA and regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong.
We’ve built a phenomenal foundation for success with a proven leadership team, highly passionate employees and unique patented software. We invite you to help us continue our drive to define a new industry and become part of an innovative, and disruptive software company.
Benefits & Perks: Wow! This is really cool!
SF Only
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO, sick leave, stocked micro kitchens in Splunk offices, catered lunches on Mondays, catered breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer, “Fun Fridays”.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Non SF
Medical, full company paid Dental, Vision and Life Insurance, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts, Commuter Accounts, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), 401(k), 3 weeks of PTO and sick leave. Our work environments vary by location however we believe in hosting amenities and fun activities to fuel our energy. You may find fully stocked micro kitchens, catered lunches on Mondays and breakfast on Fridays, basketball hoops, ping pong, arcade games, BBQ’s, soccer and “Fun Fridays”.
This isn’t a job – it’s a life changer – are you ready?
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