Senior Security Analyst

About the Position

Bitdefender is a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide. We are looking for a Senior Security Analyst to join our Managed Detection and Response team in Bucharest. You will work in a tight-knit, experienced team backed by an international organization that has been in business for 18 years.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an escalation point for security events from multiple sources
• Using the Cyber Kill Chain, indicators of activity, and indicators of compromise with current intelligence information to proactively review customers' environments searching for anomalous behavior across network, host, and logs data
• Lead an Incident Response Team to investigate and remediate active threats while accurately documenting results using standard incident response techniques
• Develop analytic signatures to identify suspicious and malicious behaviors

Requirements

• Be able to demonstrate working knowledge and understanding of the following:
  • Cybersecurity principles
  • Cyber threats and vulnerabilities
  • Current incident response methodologies
  • Current cyber investigative techniques
  • Current cyber threat trends
  • Computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies
  • Perform analysis of log files from a variety of sources (e.g., individual host logs, network traffic logs, firewall logs, and intrusion detection system [IDS] logs) to identify possible threats to network security
  • Basic system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques
  • Identifying, modifying, and manipulating applicable system components within Windows, Unix, or Linux (e.g., passwords, user accounts, files)
  • Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings)
  • Defense-in-depth principles and practices (e.g., defense-in-multiple places, layered defenses, security robustness)
  • Virtualization and cloud computing
  • Knowledge of which system files (e.g., log files, registry files, configuration files) contain relevant information and where to find those system files
  • Hacking methodologies
  • Networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP), services (e.g., web, mail, DNS), and how they interact to provide network communications
  • Knowledge of encryption algorithms (e.g., Internet Protocol Security [IPSEC], Advanced Encryption Standard [AES], Generic Routing Encapsulation [GRE], Internet Key Exchange [IKE], Message Digest Algorithm [MD5], Secure Hash Algorithm [SHA]) and how they are used
  • How to perform packet-level analysis using appropriate tools (e.g., Wireshark, tcpdump)
  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools - Searching, aggregating, and correlating data
  • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
  • Regular Expressions (Regex)

We Offer

• Wide variety of health and wellness plans
• Competitive salary and total compensation plans with quarterly bonuses
• 401k retirement planning
• Paid career development and training
• Subsidized cell phones and gym membership

About the Company

Bitdefender is a cybersecurity leader delivering best-in-class threat prevention, detection, and response solutions worldwide. Guardian over millions of consumer, enterprise, and government environments, Bitdefender is one of the industry’s most trusted experts for eliminating threats, protecting privacy, digital identity, and data, and enabling cyber resilience. With deep investments in research and development, Bitdefender Labs discovers hundreds of new threats each minute and validates billions of threat queries daily. The company has pioneered breakthrough innovations in antimalware, IoT security, behavioral analytics, and artificial intelligence and its technology is licensed by more than 180 of the world’s most recognized technology brands. Founded in 2001, Bitdefender has customers in 170+ countries with offices around the world. For more information, visit Bitdefender.