Kforce has a client in Orlando, FL that is seeking a SOC Analyst II. Summary: As a member of the professional staff, the SOC Analyst contributes general knowledge and skill in a discipline area to support team and/or department objectives. Generally, the SOC Analyst works under limited supervision, but within established guidelines, producing and analyzing more complex business information to assist in the decision-making process. Responsibilities: * Assists more senior associates in achieving business results by: identifying opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of business processes; Participating in setting department operating plans; Achieving results against budget within scope of responsibility * Monitors security tools for alerts and follow defined processes to remediate * Resolves security incident tickets according to established service level agreements * Evaluates and improves existing detection rules for continuous improvement * Works with security incident response team to investigate potential security breaches * Maintains process documentation such as Standard Operating Procedures * Works with security incident response team to investigate potential security breaches * Provides feedback to other security teams on potential security enhancements based on detected events * Proactively searches IT systems for novel and hard-to-detect attacks and hacking techniques based on Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst findings * Provides technical and analytical support of technologies that support network and system security monitoring at an enterprise level * Communicates with system owners, custodians, and IT contacts to pursue security testing activities, including obtaining access to systems, digital artifact collection, and containment and/or remediation actions * Assists in analyzing findings and document results and produce reports