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What you’ll be doing...

The Incident Response Analyst role is a position providing an opportunity to work in a fast paced collaborative environment defending Verizon from current and future cyber threats. This position plays a critical role in Verizon’s enterprise computing defense. Analysts must be agile, willing to learn and teach others, and able to think outside of the box in order to operate effectively in an ever changing threat landscape.

Responsibilities:

• Utilizes and adheres to defined workflow and processes driving the Incident Response and mitigation efforts.

• Collects supporting information and/or relevant artifacts in support of Incident Response activities.

• Escalates and hands off to team members and leadership based on defined threat and priority determination.

• Conducts technical analysis on impacted systems to determine impact, scope, and recovery from active and potential cyber incidents.

• Leverages Forensics tools, techniques, and capacities to support Cyber Incident Response activities.

• Documents results of cyber threat analysis and subsequent remediation and recovery in an effective and consistent manner.

• Executes the Incident Response lifecycle and coordinates remediation activities throughout the Verizon organization and its lines of business as a part of Cyber Incident Handling.

• Applies thought leadership to enhance and advance the defensive capabilities of the Threat Management Center (TMC) and its subsequent ability to defend the Verizon Enterprise.

• Recommends solutions to optimize both technical and process/procedure aspects of the end to end incident lifecycle.

• Writes technical articles for knowledge sharing.

• Provides Training and Mentoring of Junior team members.

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Two or more years Incident Handling experience.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Related Certification (A+, Network+, Security+, CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, GCFE, GNFA, GREM).

• Information Assurance or Cyber Experience in the Telecommunications industry.

• Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC) with focus on Computer Network Defense (CND).

• Strong communication and presentation skills along with the ability to work in a highly collaborative environment.

• Ability to exhibit initiative, follow-up and follow through with commitments.

• Strong relationship skills and collaborative style to enable success across multiple partners.

• Experience executing various Incident Response Frameworks and Handling Procedures.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

This role is eligible for the Department of Defense Skillbridge program.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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