The Cybersecurity group at KLA is involved in every aspect of the global business. The KLA Cybersecurity group defends against cyber-attacks and provides cybersecurity tools, incident response services and assessment capabilities to safeguard the environments that support the essential operations of KLA. We are passionate about identifying adversarial activities and anticipating a wide variety of threats to strengthen our defenses and the overall protection of KLA Intellectual Property.
The SOC Analyst - 3 is responsible for advanced incident response, threat hunting, and maintaining the security tools that are used to secure our environment. This individual will have a specific focus on Incident Response, tuning detection rule-sets, and generating and responding to tickets across relevant IT and Cybersecurity teams.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Act as an active member of the team, which monitors and process responses for security events on a 24x7 basis to include serving in a rotational on-call capacity.
IDS monitoring and analysis, analyze network traffic, log analysis, prioritize and differentiate between potential intrusion attempts and false alarms.
Proactively monitor SIEM, EDR, and network based alerts, and respond to active threats to internal networks.
Advise incident responders in the steps to take to investigate and resolve computer security incidents.
Actively preform detection, monitoring, analysis, and resolution of security incidents.
Plan and implement regular incident response and postmortem exercises, with a focus on crafting measurable benchmarks to show progress (or deficiencies requiring additional attention).
Review and analyze cyber threats and provide SME support and training to junior level security analysts.
Transform threat intelligence into effective detection logic and new signatures for integration with SIEM and EDR platforms.
Evaluate existing detection rules and facilitate the development and tuning of AV, EDR, and SIEM rules to ensure high fidelity alerting.
Communication with management as required, keeping leaders informed of incident progress, notifying of impending changes or agreed outages.
Prioritize their own work to provide a positive customer experience.
Participation in security incident handling efforts in response to a detected incident.
Must maintain awareness of trends in security regulatory, technology, and operational requirements.
Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

Some domestic and/or international travel (up to 25%) may be required.
Ability to communicate clearly with other team members in a hybrid environment.
Generate reports from different data sources and present to management when requested.