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Job Title: Senior Associate, IT Security (Security Operations Center Analyst)

Job Code: 12330

Location: Melbourne, FL

Job Description:

L3Harris is searching for talented Information Technology (IT) Security professional to join the L3Harris Security Operations Team as a Security Analyst. This is an operations center staff position that supports the Enterprise Security Operations Center (SOC). This position is ONSITE in Melbourne, FL. Applicants must be willing to work rotating shift periods that include evening and weekend rotations. Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Responsible for Tier 1 security configuration hardening, incident detection/ investigation and reporting to management and customer security contacts

• Monitor security events to identify anomalies for possible incidents within the network

• Manages Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) infrastructure and applications, including workflow management, threat hunting assignments, threat intelligence ingests, rule/alert creation and operational maintenance

• Use developed skills, tools, and external resources to validate security-related events to determine validity, exposure or false positive conditions

• Ability to retrieve, correlate and analyze event history, configuration files and system logs to assess presence of anomalous events

• Produce time-critical, technical reports to management outlining incident and potential mitigation

• Communicate with SOC and Network Operations Center (NOC) staff about potential incidents, indicators and/or warnings

• Troubleshoot and effect restoration of service-impacting issues affecting customer VPN performance

• Handle trouble calls from customers and internal network users

• Apply baseline security configurations to network equipment to harden or update to meet approved requirement baselines.

• Ability to provide on-call support on a rotational basis as needed on weeknights and weekends.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced operational environment to maintain availability and resiliency of network security services to customers.

• Ability to obtain FAA Public Trust security clearance

  Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in IT Security or related field) and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.

• Minimum of (1) years' experience in the Information Security field.

• Minimum of (1) years' experience in the network engineering fields (Firewalls, Routers, Switches, VPN).

  Preferred Additional Skills:

• Understanding of various Operating Systems (e.g Windows, Linux, etc.)

• Understanding of system logs and be familiar with log analysis

• Understanding of predominant cyber-attack vectors (Buffer Overflow, Phishing, etc.)

• Information Security Operations Center analyst experience

• CompTIA Security+ Certification or equivalent certification preferred

• Understanding of system vulnerabilities and exploitation

• Understanding of vulnerability mitigation

• Knowledge of SIEM functions threat hunting, correlation of events, dashboard creation, metrics development, and creating alerts based on threat intelligence and other Indictors of Compromise (IOC)s

• Strong written and oral communication skills, be self-motivated and a self-starter, maintain a curiosity and desire to learn, and be able to work well in a team environment

• Ability to prioritize vulnerability mitigation efforts based on risk assessments

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. L3Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws. L3Harris maintains a drug-free workplace and performs pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks, where permitted by law.