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Houston, Texas, United States
Onsite
Job Description
At Norton Rose Fulbright, people thrive because of a shared commitment to quality, unity and integrity. The highly regarded law firm consistently receives recognition from Great Place to Work and Top Workplaces, two companies that specialize in assessing organizational culture. Teams collaborate across regions, value new ideas and deliver meaningful client solutions, supported by a culture that embraces ambition, development and shared success. With more than 3,000 lawyers and 3,000 business services professionals working together across 50 offices worldwide, this global law firm provides a full range of legal services to leading corporations and financial institutions operating in key markets and sectors.
The Senior Information Security Analyst is one of several senior analyst roles within the Firm’s global Security Operations (SOC) team. Each Senior Analyst provides technical leadership in the SOC’s day-to-day monitoring, detection and response activities, hunts for emerging adversary activity, and continuously improves the Firm’s ability to detect and respond to threats at speed.
The role is part of a worldwide team empowered to operate the activities within its assigned function. daily activities focus on security monitoring, event and incident triage, incident response, request management, detection engineering and proactive threat hunting, with direction provided by the Information Security Manager.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Security Monitoring, Detection & Response
Operate and manage security incidents and requests to SLA guidelines, acting as an intermediate escalation point for complex investigations.
Monitor, triage and investigate alerts across endpoints, cloud, identity, email and network telemetry, reviewing and escalating unusual event behavior.
Lead structured incident response aligned to a recognized lifecycle, including containment, eradication, recovery, evidence preservation and digital forensic analysis as authorized.
Triage and remediate phishing, vishing and impersonation attacks in a timely and efficient manner as the risk dictates.
Configure and tune appropriate security parameters in monitoring systems and act as a technical point of escalation for alerted issues.
Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting
Conduct proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunting on a scheduled basis to identify adversary activity not surfaced by existing detections.
Design, test, tune and maintain detection rules and use cases (e.g. Sigma / KQL), and map detection coverage to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to identify and close detection gaps.
Maintain technical awareness of adversary tradecraft, emerging attack techniques and threat intelligence relevant to the legal sector, translating these into new or improved detections.
Automation & AI-Enabled Operations
Develop and maintain security automation and orchestration (SOAR) playbooks to streamline incident response and automate repetitive operational tasks.
Use AI-assisted detection, triage and investigation tooling effectively, and critically validate, tune and quality-assure AI-generated findings and recommendations
Governance, Improvement & Leadership
Act as a technical mentor for junior and peer analysts, supporting skills development and succession planning within the region.
Take ownership of one or more SOC processes, functions or technologies globally, ensuring their continued maintenance and improvement.
Assist with development and maintenance of SOC playbooks, runbooks, monitoring configuration and standard operating procedures, identifying improvements and reporting on incidents
Required experience and skills:
Technical bachelor’s degree or equivalent IT / Information Security experience (required).
At least 5 years’ experience working within security operations or Information Security infrastructure, or a strong vocation and demonstrable transferable experience from another technical discipline.
Proven ability to adapt quickly to emerging threats or new information, shifting focus as needed.
Demonstrated expertise in Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Sentinel for detecting, investigating and responding to suspicious and anomalous activity.
Strong knowledge of core security technologies (firewalls, IDS/IPS, EDR, SIEM) and of structured incident-response methodologies (e.g. NIST).
Working knowledge of endpoint security and monitoring infrastructure (EDR, DLP, removable-media encryption) and of cloud-based web and email security solutions (e.g. Zscaler, Mimecast, Proofpoint, Cisco).
Ability to triage and remediate phishing and impersonation attacks in a timely and efficient manner as the risk dictates.
Experience working with a service management tool (e.g. ServiceNow).
In addition to the core foundation above, the Senior Analyst must bring demonstrable, in-depth expertise in at least one of the following domains, with solid working knowledge across the remainder:
Identity & Access — deep experience detecting and responding to identity-based attacks across Active Directory and Entra ID / Azure AD, including conditional access, privileged access, authentication protocols and identity threat detection and response (ITDR).
Cloud Security — deep experience monitoring and responding to threats across a major cloud platform (Azure, AWS or GCP), including cloud logging and telemetry, posture signals, and cloud-native detection and response.
Windows & Linux Operating Systems — deep host-level investigation and forensic capability across both Windows and Linux, including event log and audit analysis, process and memory investigation, and OS hardening.
Security Automation & Detection Engineering — advanced scripting (PowerShell and/or Python) and SOAR playbook development, and/or detection engineering (Sigma / KQL) to automate response and expand detection coverage at scale.
Preferred Certifications
One or more of the following certifications are preferred:
Security Operations / SIEM: Microsoft SC-200 (Security Operations Analyst), GIAC GSOC
Incident Handling & Response: GIAC GCIH, Blue Team Level 1 (BTL1)
Specialist Technical Certifications: AZ-500 (Azure Security Engineer), SC-300 (Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator), GCFA (GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst), GCFE (GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner), GIAC GPYC (Python Coder)
Foundational / Broad Security Certifications: CompTIA Security+, GIAC GSEC, CISSP, CCSP
The Team:
The Security Operations (SOC) team is a dedicated sub-team of Global Information Security responsible for near-24x7 monitoring, detection and response to security incidents. Operating in shifts across time zones, the team is the Firm’s first line of defense against cyber threats, triaging alerts from multiple sources and acting swiftly to contain and remediate when a threat is confirmed, collaborating with regional IT teams to prevent recurrence.
The wider Information Security function is responsible for ensuring the overall effectiveness of the control framework and managing security incidents. The team works with unified principles and processes around the world while maintaining regional stakeholder relationships. It adheres to the international standard ISO/IEC 27001 and reports to the Firm’s Global CISO.
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is committed to providing employees with a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that supports you, your health, and your family. Benefit packages include access to three medical insurance plans, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance. Employees can also access pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts. Norton Rose Fulbright helps provide financial security by allowing employees to participate in a 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible. Full- time employees are eligible to access fertility benefits designed to support fertility and family-forming journeys. Employees may also access commuter benefits where applicable and student loan assistance refinancing options.
In addition to the Firm’s health and welfare benefits above, we offer a competitive paid time off plan, which provides a minimum of 20 days off based on your role and tenure with the firm. The firm offers a generous paid maternity leave and paid paternity leave (parental leave) benefit allowing parents to take a minimum of 14 weeks of paid leave to bond with your newborn or adopted child(ren). Employees may also access child care support through a back-up care program. Employees are also entitled to 11 Firm holidays.
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