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Senior SOC Consultant

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Job type
Full-time
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Posted
14 May 34

About this role

664699BR

Introduction

Information and Data are some of the most important organizational assets in today’s businesses. As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM’s clients, analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client's organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.

Your Role and Responsibilities

The consultants in the IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Services Practice are advisors and management consultants who can speak about the entire security landscape with a client’s senior management or executive team. We are looking for the best and brightest. People who can innovate. Create patents. New approaches to counter an increasingly complicated threat landscape. If you are that person, please apply.

Responsibilities

The consultants should have depth of knowledge and experience in core security domains SOC Assessments, Use Cases, SOC Runbooks, SOC Processes, SOC Operations, SIEM, Threat Hunting, Threat Intelligence, IOC’s. The consultants will provide subject matter expertise in the form of briefings, workshops, technical assessments, and/or consulting engagements within their domain that assess a client’s security capabilities as well as recommending solutions to enhance a client’s overall security capabilities. Such client security capabilities will involve use case design and implementation, runbook design and implementation, policy, process, technology assessment and build, governance, or organizational areas. The SOC consultant will also act as transition architect to connect client SOC Technology solution to IBM Security Operation Centers.

Core consulting


  • Strong communication and presentation skills
  • Strong writing skills
  • Comfortable working in a project based / client serving model.
  • Ability to shape client expectations.
  • Drive client pursuits and engage in complex deals.
  • Ability to work with global and diverse teams in a dynamic environment.
  • Ability to work in a matrix management model.
  • The consultant will assist in pre-sales, sales, deal closure, and the delivery of security consulting services.


Security Technical Skills

You understand and how to build use-cases because you know what you’re looking for. For example, you understand how ransomware and other malware, or threats technically works, which logs they write to, their IOCs, network flows, and behaviors; thus, you are adapt at building custom use-cases that hunt for early indicators. Additionally, you understand how to hunt for threats, the relationship it has with forensic investigations, and creating extracts that divulge targets and areas of interest. Also, you can design Threat Hunting programs which can be taught to other analysts, or even be automated using artificial intelligence. False positives are your sworn enemies.

The ideal candidate is not your typical SIEM person. Rather you are a person who can write your own queries and scripts that will allow you to search through logs, network flows, and other areas to correlate security events of interest. You are able to de-construct attacks and threats.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise


  • Should be able to design and implement end to end use-cases, runbooks (A Must)
  • Hands on SIEM: QRadar, Sentinel, Splunk, others
  • Hand on SOAR: Resilient and others (SOAR workflow and playbook skill set)
  • Knowledge of Palo Alto Cortex solution and XSIAM
  • Knowledge and working experience with EDR, Attack Surface Management, Threat Intelligence tools
  • Expert knowledge of Mitre Framework, NIST framework and Cyber Kill Chain Process.
  • Scripting and custom parser knowledge required for integrations.
  • An understanding of Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting
  • proficient in incident response processes - detection, triage, incident analysis, remediation, and reporting.
  • Understanding of compliance issues (ISO 27001, PCI, COBIT, GDPR, POPII, etc..) and market regulations
  • knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, network layers, Ethernet, ARP, etc)
  • Knowledge of malware operation and indicators
  • Knowledge of threat landscape (threat actors, APT, cyber-crime, etc
  • knowledge of Windows and Linux
  • Knowledge in penetration techniques


Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise


  • You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies
  • Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
  • Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management
  • Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
  • Up-to-date technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications


About Business Unit

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

When applying to jobs of your interest, we recommend that you do so for those that match your experience and expertise. Our recruiters advise that you apply to not more than 3 roles in a year for the best candidate experience.

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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