Apex combines with parent company On Assignment to be the 2nd largest IT staffing and services firm in the U.S. In addition, Apex earned Inavero’s Best of Staffing® Client Diamond Award and Best of Staffing Talent Award for providing superior service our clients and job seekers.
Apex Systems provides organizations with scalable IT staffing and services solutions to address critical gaps in their current workforce and augment workforce management strategies. Complementing our staffing solutions with deliverable-based consulting services enables us to also help organizations drive better business performance.
We serve Fortune 500, mid-market, and emerging companies in all major industries, including financial services, business services, consumer industrials, technology, healthcare, government services, and communications. With over 70+ locations, more than 1,000 recruiters and account managers as well as a candidate pipeline of more than 5 million throughout North America, we are equipped to serve our clients wherever needed.
The person working in L3 SOC team receives incidents escalated from L2 SOC, gets to manage most complex findings and work towards remediation of the incidents found.
He/she continuously operates the Security Incident process, driving the resolution of identified issues, as part of the team, bringing the necessary experience and expertise above the existing L2 SOC level.
The role is regular working hours (6.30-14.30 and 9.30-17.30 depending on specific team schedule set) but has a required on-call component (covering out-of-work hours and weekends).
The main responsibilities of an Information Security Consultant:
- Monitoring and analysis of cyber security events with use of QRadar (SIEM), IDS, Cylance, RedCloak, McAfee antivirus
- Security Event Correlation as received from L2 SOC or Incident Response staff or relevant sources to determine increased risk to the business
- Recognize potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts/compromises thorough review and analysis of relevant event detail and summary information
- Development and execution of SOC procedures
- Triage security events and incidents, detect anomalies, and report/direct remediation actions.
- Ensure confidentiality and protection of sensitive data
- Analysis of phishing emails reported by internal end users
- Working with remediation (IT Infra & Ops) teams on events and incident mitigation
- Follow up on remediation activities
- 8hrs daytime working schedule (6.30-14.30 or 9.30-17.30) with on-call duty outside the hours