Lead Security Analyst

Lead Security Analyst (P4)

Must Have skills: SOC, End to end investigation, L4 ticket investigation, IDR (

Experience: 10 to 14 years

Shift: Rotational

Job Responsibilities:

As a Level 4 (L4) Lead Security and Threat Monitoring Analyst, you will be part of UKGs Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) team investigating events of interest and incidents as they are validated, prioritized, and categorized by UKGs 24x7 L1, L2 and L3 analyst teams. You will facilitate and follow UKG’s standard processes to investigate, contain, eradicate, and respond in a continued and unified effort to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of UKG, our partners’ and customers’ data and services.
You will be an escalation point for all incidents, either regionally or during shift assignment; analyzing, confirming, re-prioritizing if necessary and/or escalating/remediating those identified threats within the UKG computing environment. Having handson experience into Digital Forensics and Public cloud. You will work closely with UKG’s GSOC teams in the US, Europe, and India to promote an integrated, uniform, and holistic threat detection and response capability to facilitate and enable a robust and proactive security posture. You will leverage your skills, experience, and creativity to perform initial, forensically sound collection and analysis, methodologies to contain, eradicate, and recover from realized threats such as zero-day, ransomware, malware and other APT’s. Additionally, you will be responsible for participating in incident response activities as part of the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) or as the Cyber Incident Response Lead (CIRL), post incident reporting and continuous improvement recommendations to enhance UKG’s security posture through process development, tool rationalization, detection technique and automation enhancement opportunities and enablement/training possibilities. Due to the nature of the work, you are required to have occasional on-call duties on weekends and/or holidays. Additional work hours may also be required during an incident investigation.

Primary/Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities:

Qualification (Experience, Education, Certification, License and Training):

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline
• CISSP, CCSP, GIAC or other relevant cyber security certifications • Working professional with 9+ years of relevant Security/SOC experience

Required Qualifications: