IT Security specialist

Your mission

The mission for the IT Security specialists within the IT Security Operations team is to act as watch dogs and security advisors; to both keep an eye out for attacks in progress AND to figure out ways to beef up defenses to prevent, mitigate and minimize business impact from future cyberattacks. In this role you will report to the Team leader for IT Security Operations and be formally employed by the Global IT Security Manager.

Some of the responsibilities you will have as an IT Security Specialist:

• Implement and efficiently manage a broad suite of IT security tools
• Investigate suspicious activities, contain and prevent them from spreading
• Reduce IT downtime and facilitate handover to redundancy to enable business continuity
• Providing pro-active IT security services to the rest of the organization
• Design and generate IT audit and compliance reports
• Onboarding of new IT (security) technologies, installing them and training team members
• Improve our threat intelligence by performing threat hunting and threat intelligence gathering
• Working on long term key cybersecurity initiatives
• Actively and frequently engage in cooperation with our Managed Security Service Partner

Your profile

For this role we are looking for someone with knowledge and experience of:

Network Defend - the ability to defend the network. Tasks include monitoring, discovering, and analyzing possible threats via network traffic.

Ethical hacking - must know how to detect threats and report vulnerabilities in a manner that ensures the organization remains protected from attacks and know how to perform penetration testing for systems, web applications, and networks to find vulnerabilities.

Incident response - must be able to manage several effects of breaches in a manner that reduces the impact of breaches and to provide recommendations that can help prevent future security breaches.

Understand and operate - must be familiar with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) and Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) tools.

Computer forensics - must be familiar with computer forensic techniques for the SOC to collect, analyze and report security data and malicious software that can serve as possible forensic evidence.

Scripting language - must have some experience of writing scripts.

Technical documentation - must have experience in, summarizing and providing technical information.

Communication skills - must have excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills in English.

As for your personal skills we are looking for someone who is goal orientated, fast learner and eager to learn along the way. You are able to adopt new technologies and tools when needed, open-minded to enjoy intellectual sparring and knowledge sharing.

You have an analytical and structured approach to problem solving, empathic with a respectful attitude towards others, and not afraid of asking questions and dare to develop yourself and others by welcoming new ways of thinking.

Life at Epiroc

By joining our team, you can expect an atmosphere of creativity, innovation, and workplace diversity. You will be a part of a group of skilled, dedicated, and helpful colleagues who live by our core values: Collaboration, Commitment, and Innovation. We work in a global environment with over 113 different nationalities!

In addition to the fact that we have a culture that is characterized by development combined with having a good balance between work and leisure, there are some things that makes us a little extra proud to work at Epiroc:

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  Global career opportunities
• Epiroc University, for your own competence development
• Community involvement
• Benefits package, which amongst other things include flexible working hours and bonus.

Location and travel

This position is located at the Epiroc hub in Garland, Texas, USA. The majority of normal daily working hours are to be carried out from the Epiroc office in Garland.