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Lead MDR teams delivering high-quality security operations across APJ hours, developing people and improving service health, investigation quality, operational efficiency, and customer outcomes within a global 24x7 operation.
Team Lead- Threat Analyst
🕒 10 days ago
Security Operations Center ManagementThreat AnalysisIncident ResponseIncident Handling
📜 Description
- Provide day-to-day oversight of threat analysts and operational tasks.
- Guide analysts through security incident investigations, response, root-cause analysis, and resolution.
- Lead incident scenarios and provide cybersecurity incident response expertise.
- Execute incident-handling procedures and respond directly to cybersecurity incidents.
- Track attacker tools, tactics, and procedures and develop indicators of compromise for investigations.
- Assess threat intelligence and open-source intelligence, identify emerging threats, and apply findings.
🛠️ Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity; leadership experience preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field, or relevant commensurate work experience.
- Experience in a security operations center or similar environment, identifying indicators of compromise or attack and responding to incidents.
- Endpoint and network security experience, including IDS, IPS, EDR, ATP, malware defenses, and monitoring.
- Knowledge of adversary tactics and techniques, incident response procedures, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework; threat hunting experience preferred.
- Experience administering Windows workstations and servers, plus Apple or Linux-based operating systems.
- Fundamental understanding of network traffic analysis, including TCP/IP, routing, switching, and protocols.
- SQL query construction preferred; OSQuery experience is a plus.
✨ Benefits
- Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks.
- Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days.
- Global employee sustainability initiatives.
- Global fitness and trivia competitions.
- Global wellbeing days.
- Monthly wellbeing webinars and training.
Full job description
About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
Sophos is seeking an experienced and motivated Security Operations Manager to support its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) customers.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the operational management and effectiveness of the Security Operations Center and its personnel. This involves overseeing the day-to-day security operations and ensuring the strategic and operational mission of the MDR Team is fulfilled.
What you will do
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Maintain supervision over operational tasks and provide day-to-day oversight for threat analysts
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Oversee analysts in their investigation and response
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Activities when security incidents arise to determine possible root cause and resolution
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Effectively communicate information to stakeholders of all levels
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Demonstrate experience in network and host-based intrusion analysis, incident response processes and procedures, digital forensics and/or handling malware
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Acting as a lead throughout incident scenarios and provide subject matter expertise in cybersecurity incident response·
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Successfully executing incident handling procedures as well as direct response to cyber security incidents
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Maintaining current knowledge and recognition of attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to produce indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be utilized during active and future investigations
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Assessing cyber threat intelligence/open source intelligence and operationalizing that information
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Demonstrating real-world, hands-on experience dealing with sophisticated malware and dynamic cyber threat actors
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Identifying current and emerging threats and application of such research
What you will bring
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5+ years of experience within a cybersecurity environment; experience in a leadership role is preferred
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Bachelor's in information technology, Computer Science, or a related field; or relevant, commensurate work experience
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Experience in a security operations center, or similar environment, and identifying indications of compromise or attack and responding to incidents
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Endpoint and network security experience required; IDS, IPS, EDR, ATP, Malware defenses and monitoring experience
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Threat hunting experience preferred
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Knowledge of common adversary tactics and techniques, e.g., obfuscation, persistence, defense evasion, etc.
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Knowledge of Mitre ATT&CK framework preferred
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Working knowledge of incident response procedures
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Experience with SQL query construction preferred
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Experience with OSQuery is a plus
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Experience administering and supporting Windows OS (both workstations and server) and one of the following: Apple or Linux-based operating systems (e.g. XP, Windows 7, 2003, 2008, OS X)
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Fundamental understanding of network traffic analysis including TCP/IP, routing, switching, protocols, etc.
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