SOC Analyst

Halian

Kuwait

Ref: NP559-276

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our client, world's leading IT vendor has a fantastic job opportunity for a L1 SOC analyst with Qradar experience to be based in Kuwait for a 12 month extendable contract. The candidate must be available immediately or within a month.

Requirements

• The L1 soc analyst must have the following skills:
• Experience with the QRadar SIEM is a must
• Knowledge of network security zones, firewall, IDS
• Performing 1st level triage of incoming alerts into issues or incidents (initial assessing the priority of the event, initial determination of incident to determine risk and damage or appropriate routing of security or privacy data request)
• Responsible with maintaining all Tier 1 documentation
• Provide initial investigation of security incidents
• Advanced analysis of alerts
• Review alerts escalated by end users
• Provide limited incident response to end users for low complexity security incidents
• Provide communication and escalation throughout the incident per the CIRT guidelines
• Perform analysis of log files
• Takes an active part in the containment of incidents, even after they are escalated

About the Company

Founded in 1996, Halian is an IT services company with a strong track record of delivering value for our customers across the UK, Europe, The Middle East and Africa.

The experience we have gained means that we can help our clients reduce information technology costs, increase IT systems performance, and free up valuable internal resource to focus on core business activities. Our knowledge base covers a variety of industry sectors including Government, Healthcare, Telecommunications and Pharmaceuticals, as well as a specialist Financial markets capability in our Luxembourg office.

We operate with a culture of openness and trust that helps us to develop strong working relationships with our clients and with our core technology partners Dell, Oracle, Red Hat and Symantec.

Our three key service offerings of Managed Services, Resourcing Services and Professional Services can be used independently or integrated to provide a truly comprehensive service.

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