**Introduction** In this role, you’ll work in our IBM Client Innovation Center (CIC), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. These centers offer our clients locally-based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology. **Your role and responsibilities** As senior Senior Cyber Security Analyst you will be responsible for the detailed investigation of the systems that raise alerts and those that are escalated by the Tier 1 SOC analysts and will recommend or initiate appropriate courses of action to support overall Readiness requirements. * Monitoring systems and processes security events and incidents using established processes * Performing deep analysis of events and incidents escalated by Tier-1 security analysts. * Delegating the investigation of detected events to Tier-1 Security analysts * Determining whether critical systems and data are affected and initiates or recommends corrective actions. * Maintaining and updates detection rulesets following established processes. * Maintaining and updates an incident log and a lessons learned * Categorizing and reports incidents following established procedures. * Supporting the 24x7x365 SOC by providing a view of security events and network activity * Mentoring and supporting Tier-1 security analysts **Required technical and professional expertise** * Quality experience in working as a network security analyst in a security operations center * Extensive experience with all phases of incident response * Extensive experience in the inner-workings of Operating systems (Windows and Linux-based) * Extensive knowledge of network communications and routing protocols * Experience in programming and/or scripting languages * Extensive experience using SIEM applications * Experience managing and prioritizing large volume of alerts * Experience managing , analyzing, editing and crafting Intrusion Detection rules * Practical experience in Information Security concepts and technology * English - excellent verbal and written communications skills **Preferred technical and professional experience** * GIAC GCIH Certification * GIAC GCIA Certification * Microsoft Certified Windows Server Administrator (or equivalent Windows Certification) * Redhat Certified Systems Administrator (or equivalent Linux certification) * CISSP / CISM or equivalent certification