Senior SOC Analyst

At a glance

ABN AMRO Clearing Bank (AACB) is a global leader in the domain of clearing, offering access to a wide range of listed instruments on markets across the globe. ABN AMRO Clearing CISO Office is looking for a SOC Analyst for the Operations and Intelligence (O&I) department.

Working environment

The AACB CISO O&I department is responsible for the daily security operations of ABN-AMRO Clearing Bank. Their responsibilities include threat intelligence, vulnerability management, security monitoring, and incident response. The team consists of security professionals located in Sydney, Amsterdam and Chicago. This role is Amsterdam based. 

The global landscape of AACB contains a diverse combination of networking solutions, operating systems, and applications. To perform their daily operations, the team can rely on market leading security tools and technologies like EDR, SIEM, Vulnerability Scanners, etc. 

 Your job

The vacant role contains multiple aspects of work in a Security Operations Centre. The primary focus for this role is on Security Monitoring, Vulnerability Management, and improving our current capabilities.

For Security Monitoring it’s about triaging security alerts and resolving incidents. The alerts are often escalated via our Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) who provides Tier-1 SOC services to AACB. You will then swiftly perform triage and decide what actions should be done to contain the threat. For the analysis you will have access to several sources such as EDR, Firewalls, endpoints, and application logging. If an alert escalates to a security incident, you either resolve it yourself or connect with a team member to resolve it together. Within Vulnerability Management you analyse and escalate vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are then picked-up by different teams within the organization for them to resolve. 

Besides the daily operations a big part of your role will be identifying areas of improvements and working with stakeholders to get these done. An improvement can range from a small modification to the implementation of a new tool, all while working together and challenging the stakeholders who are a part of this process. 

As an SOC analyst you play a critical role in keeping the company safe by assessing the risk and impact of detected vulnerabilities and security incidents in a highly regulated environment.

 Responsibilities and duties

•    Triage incoming cyber security alerts escalated from our MSSP.
•    Investigate cyber security incidents and work with team members to contain and remediate them.
•    Analyse identified vulnerabilities and escalate them towards specific teams. 
•    Identifying improvements in SOC tooling and capabilities such as Malware Prevention or SIEM. 
•    Leading the implementation of new processes and tooling in the O&I team.
•    Analyse new security threats and validate our controls against them. 
•    Guide stakeholders with their questions regarding Security Operations. 

Your profile

•    A keen interest in Cyber Security and a desire to learn more.
•    Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude.
•    Taking ownership on work that needs to be done. 
•    Strong communication skills with stakeholders who are technical and non-technical.
•    Ability to give and take feedback and not afraid to ask questions. 
•    A drive to improve the current way of working.

Knowledge and experience 

•    4+ years’ experience in SOC related activities.
•    Experience with the incident response life cycle.
•    Demonstrable experience in security operations work. 
•    Understanding frameworks such as Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK.
•    A deep understanding of, SIEM (Splunk) and or EDR (Microsoft Defender) products. 
•    Working with stakeholder to get things done. 
•    Certifications such as the following would be desirable but not mandatory: GCIH, GDAT, GCDA, GISP, OSDA, CCFR, SC-900, SC-200, Splunk

We are offering

• The gross monthly salary displayed above is based on a 36-hour work week, including vacation pay and benefit budget. 
• The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month. 
• Five weeks of vacation per year. You have the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year. 
• Personal development Budget of € 1,000 per year, which you can accumulate up to € 3,000. 
• Possibility to work from home (in consultation with your team and depending on your position). 
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands. 
• An excellent pension scheme.