Security Operations Center Analyst

Cloudflare
Full-time
Austin
Posted on 5 months ago

Job Description

Security Operations Center Analysts provide premium-level support for Cloudflare’s security products and features. They analyze threats, suggest mitigation strategies, and may implement them directly on behalf of the customer.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and investigate alerts to identify attacks
  • Work with Engineering and Operations teams to mitigate attacks
  • Work with Engineering and Product teams to improve products and tools
  • Extensive communications with customers
  • Review alerts to determine relevancy and urgency
  • Configure/Manage security monitoring rules and contribute to tool improvements
  • Compare traffic signatures and attributes to determine good vs malicious traffic
  • Participation in a weekend and holiday rotation

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of the OSI model, TCP, UDP, BGP, QUIC
  • Advanced understanding of iptables
  • Experience in handling attack mitigation and knowledge of various attacks (L3/4 and L7)
  • At least 2 years of technical support experience
  • Strong communication skills
  • Command line / Bash shell
  • Sysadmin skills (Linux/Mac/Windows) & Programming skills (Python, Ruby, PHP, C, C#, Java, Perl, Git etc.)
  • Security skills and certifications preferred: CISSP, GCIA GCIH, GCFA, GCFE, etc.

Benefits

  • No benefits