Senior Security Operations Engineer (Hybrid)

Practice - CIS - Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services

About Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services: Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about embracing digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the digital era. Our holistic approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to run the business in a secure environment.

Role and Responsibilities:

* Responsible for monitoring Security events from SIEM, Threat Intelligence, end use notifications, etc to determine security risk and respond accordingly.

* Follow established processes, procedures & SLAs to respond and to document analysis of security events.

* Participate in various tasks within the SOC (SIEM, Mailbox monitoring, Threat Intel, etc)

* Responsible for development/improvement of processes/procedures related to Cyber Security Operation Center.

* Review existing alerts, identify opportunities for tuning and work with Content development team to test and implement them.

* Provide guidance to junior analysts on all SOC activities

* Participate in review of new SIEM use cases and develop runbooks that provide guidelines for analyzing specific threats related to the new use cases.

Preferred experience:

* CySA+, GCIA, GCIH, CISSP certifications

* Tool Specific Certs such as: Splunk, CrowdStrike, Microsoft, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.

* Threat Hunting experience

* Experience in the financial services industry

Qualifications:

* 8+ years of Information Security or related risk management experience

* 5+ years of Hands-on Information Security SOC/Incident Response experience with analyzing IOCs/Alerts as identified by CSOC & Threat Intel team

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*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

Applications will be accepted until 16 May 2025.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $[114,500 - 134,000] depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

* Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

* Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

* 401(k) plan and contributions

* Long-term/Short-term Disability

* Paid Parental Leave

* Employee Stock Purchase Plan