The Position:

As a Cybersecurity Analyst at Veracyte, you will play a pivotal role in securing our digital infrastructure, monitoring for threats, and implementing cutting-edge cybersecurity solutions. You will work collaboratively with our IT and cybersecurity teams to protect our organization from cyber threats and ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems and data.

Responsibilities:

• The role is responsible for monitoring and managing multiple security technologies to detect IT security incidents
• The analyst will follow operational processes and procedures to appropriately analyze, call out, and assist in remediation of critical information security incidents
• Detect and analyze opportunistic and persistent threats, deploying counter measures and conducting risk and vulnerability assessments across the enterprise
• Design, implement, monitor, and analyze security intelligence generated by company security controls
• Participate in detection and response of cyber incidents, assist in recovery of operations, and assist in formulating, updating, and communicating short- and long-term organizational cybersecurity strategies and policies
• Develop tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) and lead triage, containment, and eradication of threats
• Participate in threat hunting activities and threat analysis to maintain a high degree of awareness on the current threat landscape
• Provide effective incident response, by correlating intelligence from intrusion prevention systems (IPS), endpoints and third parties
• Develop and produce reports on all activities and incidents to help maintain day-to-day status
• Develop and report on trends and provide focus and situational awareness on all issues
• Maintain documentation for all systems and create user guides and standard operating procedures
• Adhere to enterprise change management procedures and corporate security policies
• Produce reports identifying significant or suspicious security events to appropriate parties
• Include latest security threat information and tie back to specific intrusion sets of nation state actors when possible
• Monitor and maintain the cyber awareness training program

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, or a related field.
• Relevant industry certifications such as CEH, Pentest+, CySA+, SSCP, OSCP, or equivalent.
• 5 or more years’ experience in cybersecurity or a related cybersecurity role.
• Proficiency in security tools and technologies, including, SIEM, IDS/IPS, and antivirus solutions.
• Strong understanding of network protocols, architecture, and security best practices.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience with scripting and automation (e.g., Python, PowerShell)

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