Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC Threat Hunting and Response

Assoc. Dir. DDIT ISC Threat Hunting and Response

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Summary

Location : Prague, Czech Republic; Barcelona, Spain

The Associate Director Threat Hunting and Response will be an integral part of the Novartis Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC). The CSOC is an advanced global team passionate about the active defense against the most sophisticated cyber threats and attacks. The Associate Director Threat Hunting and Responsewill is a principal engineer who will leverage a variety of tools and resources to proactively detect, investigate, and mitigate emerging and persistent threats impacting Novartis’ networks, systems, users, and applications. This role will involve coordination and communication with technical and nontechnical teams, including security leadership and business stakeholders. As an experienced skilled engineer, this role will also involve coaching and mentoring of more junior members of the CSOC.

About The Role

Please note, this role will require to participate in weekend / after hour on-call rotation to triage and / or respond to major incidents. Also, some travel may be required.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Forensics and Incident response
• Serve as escalation point for conducting investigations into security incidents involving advanced and sophisticated threat actors and TTPs
• Perform forensic collection and analysis of electronic assets and devices, scripts and malicious software, and log sources from a variety of systems and applications
• Manage incident response activities including scoping, communication, reporting, and long term remediation planning
• Threat Hunting :
• Review incident and intelligence reports from a variety of internal and external sources and team, and respond to major incidents as part of larger major incident response team
• Develop hypotheses, analyze techniques, and execute hunts to identify threats across the environment
• Interface with security teams and business stakeholders to implement countermeasures and improve defenses
• Big Data analysis and reporting :
• Utilizing SIEM / Big data to identify abnormal activity and extract meaningful insights.
• Research, develop, and enhance content within SIEM and other tools
• Technologies and Automation :
• Interface with engineering teams to design, test, and implement playbooks, orchestration workflows and automations
• Research and test new technologies and platforms; develop recommendations and improvement plans
• Day to day :
• Perform host based analysis, artifact analysis, network packet analysis, and malware analysis in support of security investigations and incident response
• Coordinate investigation, containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and groups
• Develop and maintain effective documentation; including response playbooks, processes, and other supporting operational material
• Provide mentoring of junior staff and serve as point of escalation for higher severity incidents
• Develop incident analysis and findings reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvement
• Recommend or develop new detection logic and tune existing sensors / security controls
• Work with security solutions owners to assess existing security solutions array ability to detect / mitigate the abovementioned TTPs
• Creating custom SIEM queries and dashboards to support the monitoring and detection of advanced TTPs against Novartis network
• Participate in weekend / after hour on-call rotation to triage and / or respond to major incidents

What You’ll Bring To The Role

Desirable

You’ll Receive (Prague Only)

Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement) ; 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 12,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 90 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); car allowance; MultiSport Card. Find out more about Novartis Business Services : consider Novartis?

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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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