Ref: RP805-786

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

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
• Part of the SOC team that runs 24x7,on a rotating shift schedule
• Provide initial investigation of security incidents
• Conduct secondary triage and analysis on escalated events and initial remediation for escalated incidents
• Profile and trend events in the environment to determine if an incident needs to be created
• Provide communication and escalation throughout the incident per the corporate security incident response guidelines
• Communicate directly with data asset owners and business response plan owners during high severity incidents
• Hunt for suspicious anomalous activity based on data alerts or data outputs from various toolsets
• Perform analysis of log files
• Take an active part in the containment of incidents, even after they are escalated
• Escalate issues when necessary
• Assist continuous improvement of processes and work with Applications teams to improve alerts and rules in the incident monitoring systems

About Business Unit
IBM is a leading provider of enterprise security solutions. Named by industry analysts as a leader in 12 security market segment categories, IBM Security is a multi-billion dollar business that is rapidly growing. In an industry focused on building walls, IBM Security is focused on creating an open, connected security ecosystem that leverages AI and cloud to help clients improve compliance, stop threats, and grow their business securely.

About IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.

Requirements

Your Life at IBM
What matters to you when you're looking for your next career challenge?

Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities - where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust - where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.

Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• College Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ year prior experience in a similar position at Tier 2 SOC level
• Experience with analysis and inspection of log information, packets, and other security tool information output from a variety of sources
• Exposure to network devices, Microsoft Windows systems, UNIX systems, and other security assessment tools (NMAP, Nessus, Metsploit , Netcat , etc.)
• Knowledge of log formats for syslog, http logs, DB logs and how to gather forensics for traceability back to event
• Knowledge of packet capture and analysis
• Experience with log management or security information management tools
• Ability to make information security risk determinations
• Familiarity with network security zones, basic reverse engineering principles, and understanding of malware rootkits, proxies, TCP/UDP packets, DNS, SMTP, and HTTP
• Effective verbal and written communication skills

Being You at 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, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Key Job Details
• Country: EG
• State: Al Qahirah
• City: Cairo
• Category: Consultant
• Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Position Type: Early Professional
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Contract Type: Regular
• Req ID: 292535BR

About the Company

For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region's technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

Reinvention is a keyword in the company's history and, today, IBM is much more than a "hardware, software, services" company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.

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