Security Solutions Specialist.
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The Security Solutions Specialist investigates and responds to security incidents, conducts threat hunting and forensic analysis, and supports cybersecurity solution integration in customer environments.
The role combines SOC operations with security solutions integration and acts as a technical interface between the SOC and specialized security functions.
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Job Summary
The Security Solutions Specialist investigates and responds to security incidents, conducts threat hunting and forensic analysis, and supports cybersecurity solution integration in customer environments.
The role combines SOC operations with security solutions integration and acts as a technical interface between the SOC and specialized security functions.
Incident Investigation and Response
- Investigate and analyze security incidents escalated by Tier 1 SOC Team Leaders.
- Analyze logs, network traffic, endpoint data, and security alerts to determine impact and root cause.
- Lead containment, eradication, and recovery activities for confirmed incidents.
- Prepare incident reports and escalate complex incidents to Tier 3 when required.
Threat Hunting and Forensics
- Conduct proactive threat hunting to identify advanced and emerging threats.
- Perform digital forensic analysis to understand attack paths and collect relevant evidence.
- Develop and improve detection rules and security use cases.
Security Solutions Integration
- Integrate, configure, and maintain security solutions within customer environments.
- Work with SIEM and SOAR platforms, including log onboarding, correlation rules, dashboards, alerts, playbooks, and automation workflows.
- Integrate security technologies using APIs, connectors, agents, and log-forwarding mechanisms.
- Configure and support Fortinet solutions, particularly FortiGate, and ensure proper security event monitoring.
- Troubleshoot security integration, log collection, alerting, and automation issues.
Implementation Documentation
- Create and maintain implementation guides, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.
- Develop high-level designs defining target architecture, data flows, security controls, and integration points across customer environments.
- Produce low-level designs with device-level configurations, policies, parsing and normalization rules, playbooks, and API mappings for repeatable deployments.
Position Expectations
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity, SOC operations, incident response, and network security.
- Hands-on knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, FortiGate, and Fortinet security solutions.
- Understanding of security integrations, APIs, log management, event correlation, and automation.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and reporting skills.
- Ability to collaborate with SOC, IT, security teams, and customers.
- Proactive approach to threat detection, security improvement, and continuous learning.
- Provide technical guidance to junior team members and contribute to SOC procedures, training, knowledge sharing, process improvement, detection capabilities, automation, and security integrations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or a related field.
- Four years of experience in SOC, cybersecurity, incident response, security engineering, or a related role.
- Hands-on experience with SIEM and SOAR platforms.
- Practical knowledge of FortiGate and Fortinet security solutions.
- Knowledge of networking concepts, firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, authentication, and security protocols.
- Experience with security integrations, APIs, log collection, and automation is highly preferred.
- Relevant certifications such as Fortinet NSE/FCP, Security+, CySA+, CEH, or equivalent are advantageous.
- Good English communication and technical documentation skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting abilities.
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