Job Description
The Security Operations Center (SOC) Associate Analyst supports PowerSchool’s day-to-day security monitoring and incident response by triaging and investigating security alerts, executing runbooks and SOC procedures, and escalating events that require deeper analysis. In this role, you will help configure and tune key security technologies (e.g., SIEM, endpoint protection, IDS/IPS, WAF, DLP, and related tools), analyze security logs and vulnerability scan results to identify risk patterns, and assist with remediation and root-cause analysis in partnership with internal stakeholders and application teams. You will also contribute to continuous improvement by documenting and refining processes and helping automate routine SOC workflows.
Responsibilities
The Enterprise Security team designs, builds, and protects enterprise systems, applications, data, and assets. The team provides services to safeguard information, infrastructures, applications, and business processes against cyber threats.
Your day-to-day job will consist of:
- Act as first line of defense to identify, secure and react to pre-defined security alerts using run books.
- Assist in the response of high impact incidents, working with all internal stakeholders around the company.
- Stay up to date with the most recent threats and technologies in the Cybersecurity world and actively contribute in improving the processes and solutions in place.
- Ability to utilize tools like SIEM, Endpoint protection, Web application Firewalls, Data Loss prevention, etc
- Able to interpret Vulnerability Scans, security logs and identify risk patterns or breaches
- Identify, assess and remediate pre-documented low risk security events.
- Assist in automating security routines and event treatment using the available tools and scripting languages.
- Execute Runbooks and SOC procedures and contribute in improvements.
- Analyze the root cause of incidents working with SME’s and application team
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- 1 year or less of relevant and related work experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
- Ability to work with different stakeholders through strong communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- A relevant security certification preferred but not required
- Experience with Google SecOps a plus.
