Introduction
Information and Data are some of the most important organizational assets in today’s businesses. As a Security Consultant, you will be a key advisor for IBM’s clients, analyzing business requirements to design and implement the best security solutions for their needs. You will apply your technical skills to find the balance between enabling and securing the client's organization with the cognitive solutions that are making IBM the fastest growing enterprise security business in the world.

Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM is seeking a tenured Cyber Security Professional to work within the Security Operations Center.

This position requires a motivated fast learner, who can work within the team to identify, analyze, and remediate potential threats to the environment. In this role you will be responsible for providing continuous monitoring of the corporate and federal assets ensuring the integrity of the environment. This role will require security industry knowledge that evolves with current and emerging threats, as well as an ongoing understanding of key business and technological processes.

This role will perform security monitoring, investigations and perform analysis of events to thwart internal and external threats to the environment. In addition, this candidate will collaborate on an ongoing basis with various internal security teams to support detection, triage, incident analysis, containment, remediation, and reporting of events/incidents while coordinating, balancing business priorities, emerging and actual threats, and best practices to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Monitor a strategic, comprehensive corporate and federal information security monitoring and operation program to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information owned, controlled, or processed by the organization.
• Ensure that IBM maintains compliance with all applicable federal directives and policies regarding securing and monitoring of information.
• Conduct Security Monitoring activities to provide Security in Depth visibility into potential known and unknown threats that may pose risk to the IBM environment.
• Conduct Operations surrounding cyber security incident response technologies including network logging and forensics, security information and event management tools, security analytics platforms, log search technologies, and host-based forensics as applicable.
• Detect, analyze, respond to and mitigate security threats from Firewalls (FW), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Antivirus (AV), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Security Information Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) and other security threat data sources to protect corporate and federal assets in accordance with defined SLA’s/SLO’s.
• Assist in the improvement of all policies, processes, procedures and in the tuning and detection methods of all applicable security tooling.
• Participate in security incidents and act as the technical Subject Matter Expert during significant security incidents.
• Assist in risk assessment duties including reporting and oversight of remediation efforts and change control.
• Collaborate with technical leads: Engineering, Operations, Service Desk, Applications and BISOs on matters related to security monitoring across global footprint.
• Collaborate and serve as liaison to Managed and/or Unmanaged Security Service providers.
• Act as an internal information security consultant to the business and technology units, advising on risks, threats and control practices related to rapid response.
• 2+ years of information security experience.
• Experience with risk management, vulnerability management, threat analysis, security auditing, security monitoring, incident response and other information security practices preferred.
• Knowledge of cloud computing and network protocols, generic information security standards/programs.
• Knowledge of SIEM and EDR tools, log analysis and high-level forensic analysis.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with information technology professionals as well as senior management and auditors, assessors, and consultants.
• High level of personal integrity, and the ability to professionally handle confidential matters and exude the appropriate level of judgment and maturity, have a high degree of initiative, dependability, and ability to work with little supervision.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 4+ years of information security experience
• CYSA+, GCIH, GCIA, OSCP, CISSP or similar certification

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status where legally permissible.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.