Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

Location: Canada_Remote, Canada

Dans des marchés en rapide évolution, les clients à travers le monde font confiance à Thales. Thales est une entreprise où les personnes les plus brillantes du monde entier se regroupent pour mettre en commun leurs idées et ainsi s'inspirer mutuellement. Dans tous les secteurs où œuvre Thales, notamment l’aérospatiale, le transport, la défense, la sécurité et l'espace, nos équipes d’architectes conçoivent des solutions innovantes qui rendent demain possible dès aujourd’hui.

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

**Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (Onsite)**

**Position Summary**

Thales requires a **Cyber Security Analyst** to be responsible for the detection and prevention of cyber security incidents by real-time monitoring, and analysis of potential intrusions. This includes using troubleshooting tools to analyze and respond to cyber threats, writing scripts to aid in quick analysis and response, and responding to security events. The position operates and tunes security tools, provides requirements for new security capabilities, and creates use cases for monitoring.

The Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC) team will rely on your contribution to perform an in-depth analysis of evidence, identify the malicious operations, and evaluate the real impact to solve in a quick and efficient manner. This is a key role when it comes to on-boarding new customers, maintenance, and enhancement of the CSOC’s infrastructure, and the continuous refinement of our operational processes and capabilities.

**Key Areas of Responsibility**

As the analyst you must have knowledge, skills, and work experience in a CSOC, IT infrastructure (on-prem/cloud) and network security. Proficiency in utilizing and overseeing SIEM (Security Information and Event Management), EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response), log and network analysis, as well as network security components (Firewall, WAF, IDS/IPS), is essential for success in this role. The analyst collaborates closely with global SOC teams. This role includes actively participating in shift handovers to facilitate the seamless exchange of critical information, incident details, and ongoing investigations.

Threat Analysis:

- Monitor, analyze, and report possible Cyber-attacks or intrusions, anomalous, and misuse activities.
- Leverage variety of Cyber Security tools (SIEM, EDR, and Sandbox) for analysis to identify malicious activity.
- Analyze identified malicious activity to determine Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), gather indicator of compromise (IOC) and any relevant information.
- Assess cyber risks and recommend pragmatic mitigation strategies.
- Participate in threat-hunting activities, looking for anomalies. Ingest, analyze, and contextualize data and turn that into intelligence for threat assessment and risk management.

Detection engineering support:

- Create queries/rules for specific threat searches, reports, and alerts on SIEM based on the incident, latest threat intelligence and cyber security trends.
- Participate in the refinement and optimization of correlation rules and security use cases. Support testing and validation of existing detection rules against a variety of attack scenarios to ensure their effectiveness.
- Provide feedback, and contribute to improvement SOC operations, alerts classification to minimize false positive.

Incident Response support:

- Support the investigation and provide pragmatic advice to remediate security incidents.
- Follow incident response process, document, and escalate security incidents. Stay up to date with security incidents until closure.
- Conduct research, analysis and correlate gathered data from various sources to gain situational awareness and determine the impact of the incident.
- Assist in secure collection of artifacts, analyze for malicious behavior, and carry out analysis to determine the root cause of events.

Vulnerability Management:

- Stay up to date with the latest Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE).
- Advice and track vulnerabilities and remediation efforts.

Operations
- Provide daily summary reports of Cybersecurity incidents, operation statistics of monitoring tools, and latest Cybersecurity related news.
- Perform trend analysis and develops metrics and reports on intelligence and incidents for management.
- Contribute to the creation, update of Security Operation and incident response best practices, and processes.
- Support customer onboarding projects to ensure a successful transition to CSOC for security monitoring services.
- Willingness to work flexible shifts between 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM.

**Minimum Qualifications**

Work Experience:

- Proven