Analyst II-Cyber Defense

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Job Description

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• Your Team
• Do you aspire to be a part of a global organization that recognizes security as a critical component in its trust relationship with clients, staff, business partners and shareholders? Do you want to collaborate and learn from like-minded security professionals? Do you want to work in a highly collaborative and consultative environment that values everyone’s ideas on how to best protect, detect and respond to the latest physical and cyber threats impacting the financial industry? If this sounds like a team you want to be a part of, read on to learn more about the opportunity to join us.

• Your Role
• Advance Analyst provides a technical escalation point during Security Incidents, determining extent of threat and business impacts in partnership with applicable business or IT personnel as needed, then advising and performing the most suitable course of action to contain and remediate the incident. Provides further support and input to the monitoring team during high-priority incidents. Drive continuous improvement process to reduce false positives by identifying opportunities for content tuning, L1 procedure/playbook enhancements, etc.

• You Will Be Responsible For:
• •Responsible for acting on alerts, events, and incidents escalated from the Level 1 Analyst

Triage malware incidents, their priority and the need for escalation

Monitor for emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities

Assist with recommendations and workarounds

Exhibit leadership qualities when and where required and act as shift lead

Coordinate with other external stakeholders

Communicate with management on incident updates

Ability to complete the incident lifecycle without higher level supervision

Establish and maintain intrusion detection and policies and offense rules

Tune response and alerting mechanisms

Import new signatures from manufacturer

Provide status reports to applicable management

Have a thorough understanding of technological requirements for client systems and provide guidelines to effectively mitigate security risks

Analyze and assess Firewall policy and rule base sets

Handle emergencies 24x7

Assist with BAU activities if not responding to incidents

The Experience You Bring:

• •4+ years of Information Technology experience, preferably within the financial services sector, with hands-on incident management and security operations expertise.
• •Strong knowledge of cybersecurity technologies and concepts, including SIEM, DLP, IDS/IPS, firewalls, anti-malware, encryption, operating systems, databases, web applications, network infrastructure, and security configurations.
• •Experience in network traffic analysis, threat detection, malware analysis, software vulnerabilities, exploits, and scripting, with the ability to identify emerging attack patterns and trends.
• •Proficient in analyzing and correlating security data from multiple sources, including security events, system logs, application logs, device logs, and publicly available intelligence.
• •Understanding of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), with the ability to extract, organize, and leverage large datasets for investigations and threat analysis.
• •Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor Level 1 analysts, while effectively operating in high-volume, results-driven environments and participating in 24x7 on-call support as required.
• •Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to convey technical information clearly to diverse audiences while maintaining strict confidentiality of security matters.
• •Highly organized, detail-oriented, and adaptable team player, capable of multitasking, managing changing priorities, taking initiative, and continuously maintaining current technical knowledge and skills.

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• General Role Profile
• •Requires working knowledge and experience in own job family and broadens capabilities
• •Performs a range of assignments related to job family
• •Uses prescribed guidelines or policies to analyse situations and solve a range of straightforward problems
• •Accountable for own work and effective coordination of processes and information with others
• •Works independently within guidelines and policies for ongoing work
• •Receives a moderate level of guidance and direction for new assignments

• Knowledge
• •Requires working knowledge of principles and methods within own job family
• •Obtains broadened capability through practical experience in applying theories

• Business Acumen
• •Understands key business drivers and uses this understanding to accomplish own work

• Problem Solving
• •Works on assignments of moderate scope and complexity where some initiative and independent judgment is required to search out appropriate courses of action within the context of established policies and procedures
• •Uses concepts and abilities of the skill and the Firm’s internal policies and procedures to complete assignments and solve problems

• Impact
• •Makes decisions on routine matters where established policies, procedures and guidelines are available
• •Defers non-routine decisions to immediate supervisor
• •Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the Team

• Leadership
• •Typically, no supervisory responsibilities but may provide informal guidance to new Team members
• •Leads projects and processes

• Influence and Partnership
• •Explains and simplifies complex information to others
• •Leads the coordination of information to ensure ongoing process or program execution

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.

Why Invesco

In Invesco, we act with integrity and do meaningful work to create impact for our stakeholders. We believe our culture is stronger when we all feel we belong, and we respect each other’s identities, lives, health, and well-being. We come together to create better solutions for our clients, our business and each other by building on different voices and perspectives. We nurture and encourage each other to ensure our meaningful growth, both personally and professionally.

We believe in diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace where everyone feels equally valued, and this starts at the top with our senior leaders having diversity and inclusion goals. Our global focus on diversity and inclusion has grown exponentially and we encourage connection and community through our many employee-led Business Resource Groups (BRGs).

What’s in it for you?

As an organization we support personal needs, diverse backgrounds and provide internal networks, as well as opportunities to get involved in the community and in the world.

Our benefit policy includes but not limited to:

• •Competitive Compensation
• •Flexible, Hybrid Work
• •30 days’ Annual Leave