THE WORK: We are looking for a motivated individual to join our Security team and support a key managed services engagement. As a SOC Analyst, you will play a critical role in monitoring, investigating, and triaging security alerts. You will work with established playbooks and processes to ensure timely and accurate threat response. Key responsibilities include:

• Monitor security alerts from various systems like SIEMs and EDRs.
• Perform initial investigation and analysis of security alerts to identify true threats versus false positives.
• Follow established playbooks and runbooks for incident handling.
• Escalate confirmed incidents to Level 2 analysts according to established service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Correlate logs from multiple sources to verify incidents.
• Document all actions taken during an investigation.
• Communicate with stakeholders about security events.

HERE'S WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• 0-2 years of experience in relevant related skills.
• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field of studies.
• Relevant certifications like CompTIA Security+, Certified SOC Analyst, or similar.
• Familiarity with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms like Splunk, Sentinel, Google Sec Ops, etc
• Basic understanding of network security concepts and technologies (e.g., firewalls, IDS/IPS).
• Knowledge of security tools like Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and SOAR platforms is beneficial
• Familiarity with operating systems, including log analysis on Windows and Linux.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal, for documentation and reporting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:

• Advanced proficiency in Splunk Enterprise Security.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Azure Sentinel.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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