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This individual will report to the Intelligence & Operations Manager and be focused on a diverse set of information security functions supporting a highly secure suite of services for our Aerospace and Defense and Life Sciences customer base. The ideal candidate will have a general background in multiple areas of information security and system/network operations.\nResponsibilities: Your day if you join us:\nMonitoring, triaging, deployment, and administration of security operation tools (ex. EDR, AV, email filtering, DLP, vulnerability scanners, and whitelisting).\nAbility to import and manage IOCs from various threat sources. \nSIEM administration and engineering, including refining and building dashboards, managing ingest sources and licensing, monitoring for incidents and operational events, health of indexers and deployment agents, and deploying new infrastructure.\nPerform Azure security monitoring including review, triage, and respond to Defender, Azure Monitor, and AAD alerts.\nThreat intelligence research support including notification on emerging threats and providing timely threat data in Exostar format.\nVulnerability management support using scanning tools such as Tenable/Web application scanners, communicating results to stakeholders, and supporting remediation activities.\nThreat hunting including adhoc monthly and formalized quarterly exercises with reporting. Threat hunting exercises are performed with relevance to the industry and security landscape.\nProofpoint monitoring and email filtering including mailbox user sync, review, release of legitimate emails from quarantine, reviewing inbound Spam and CIRT emails from the user population.\nSecurity engineering, consisting of maintaining FIM agents, legacy antivirus health/alert monitoring, triaging alerts, false positives, and true positives \nAdvise on procurement for new solutions which support Exostar’s Security Tools Suite.\nProvide IR escalation support, consisting of \"Tier 2-3\" incident response and forensics capabilities leveraging industry-standard methodologies (e.g., US-CIRT, NIST, MITRE) and tools.\nSupport with miscellaneous documentation tasks including the compilation of threat metrics, drafting SOPs, and providing Executive-level status reports.\nAudit and Compliance support, including assistance with providing artifacts demonstrating security control implementation, answer questions and customer questionnaires, and performing monthly User Account Reviews\nPerform Configuration Management support for product teams and conduct Change Control review\nQualifications:\nYou are a great fit for this role if you:\nRequired Skills:\n7+ years of experience in information security.\nStrong background in security operations, incident response, threat detection, and monitoring.\nDemonstrated experience securing Azure and Microsoft 365 environments in regulated or enterprise contexts.\nExperience with Multi-vendor environments including Windows Domains, Active Directory, and Linux-based environments\nExperience using on-premise and Azure cloud-native security tools (e.g. IDS, Firewalls, Splunk, Sentinel, Defender, EDR/NGAV, SIEM, vulnerability scanners, legacy and next-generation antivirus, email filtering, DLP, software whitelisting)\nScripting and query language knowledge (Python, Splunk Query Language, KQL)\nSecurity Monitoring and Intrusion Detection (e.g. Log correlation and analysis, Incident Response, Forensics)\nVulnerability Scanning and Remediation (Infrastructure, Application, and Database)\nInformation Security Threat/Risk Assessment\nDemonstrated ability to understand and respond to complex business requirements\nDemonstrated ability in strong verbal and written communication skills to interface with technical and business stakeholders\nU.S. Citizens only- Due to customer requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required. Ability to gain and maintain Trusted Role is required.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nYou are exactly who we are looking for if you\nScripting and Querying Experience (Python, PERL, Ruby, Bash, SQL, KQL)\nExperience with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Whitelisting processes and tools\nIdentity Federation Technologies (SAML, etc.)\nBusiness Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning\nData Loss Prevention (DLP)\nData Labeling and Information Rights Management\nEducation:\nBachelor’s degree in an IT or Security-related discipline or equivalent experience.\nCISSP and other security/technical certifications are a plus.\nThe pay range for this position is $120,000k - $150,000k/yr; however, the final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and location. 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By analyzing community data, we provide insights and intelligence, enabling organizations to make better, timelier decisions, to mitigate risk, and operate more efficiently.\nWe believe in employee development: we promote internally and provide training and educational assistance\nWe provide a fun, engaged workplace, with social and community-building events\nWe offer comprehensive benefits and flexible time off plans\nExostar is an Equal Opportunity Employment Employer. The company provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or genetic information. 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