Sr Cyber Defense Ops Spec

Description

Senior Cyber Defense Operations Tactical Support Specialist

The Senior Cyber Defense Operations Tactical Support Specialist will be a key contributor within the Cyber Security and Resilience (CS&R) Cyber Defense team. This role involves close collaboration with all Cyber Defense Teams, commercial vendors, and other Citizens Bank functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver initial and targeted training to newly hired SOC analysts.
• Review and refine cyber defense training curriculum based on the NIST/NICE framework.
• Assist in evaluating security toolsets used by SOC analysts.
• Collaborate with Cyber Defense Management to identify training needs and skill gaps.
• Conduct ticket analysis quality assurance reviews and provide feedback.
• Perform ongoing monitoring and threat analysis using logs, net flow data, and packet capture.
• Mentor junior staff on the security and technical team.
• Identify potential IT security incidents and escalate to Incident Response senior staff.
• Assess threat and vulnerability information from internal and external sources.
• Apply mitigation techniques promptly.
• Assess potential security risks and business impacts using cybersecurity tools and processes.
• Present recommendations to management.
• Proactively protect, monitor, investigate, and resolve threats to secure user environments and company assets.

Experience & Skills:

• Minimum 3 years in cybersecurity, including operations, compliance, hardening, and network support.
• Knowledge of enterprise logging (application, OS, security technology).
• Strong understanding of various operating systems, with emphasis on Security Operations.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Experience in computer/security incident handling, coordination, and response.

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Security or IT-related field, or equivalent experience.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., ITIL Foundations, CCP, Net+, Sec+, CEH).

Work Schedule:

• Hours per Week: 40
• Schedule: Monday through Friday

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.