**Summary**:
**About the Role**:
**MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES**
In addition to accountabilities listed above in Job Purpose:
- Security Monitoring and Triage
- Monitor in real time security controls and consoles from across the Novartis IT ecosystem
- Communicate with technical and non-technical end users who report suspicious activity
- Forensics and Incident Response
- Conduct initial investigations into security incidents involving a variety of threats
- Support incident response activities including scoping, communication, reporting, and long term remediation planning
- Review technical reports and escalations for completeness and accuracy
- Big Data analysis and reporting:
- Utilizing SIEM/Big data to identify abnormal activity and extract meaningful insights.
- Research, develop, and enhance content within SIEM and other tools
- Technologies and Automation:
- Interface with engineering teams to design, test, and implement playbooks, orchestration workflows and automations
- Research and test new technologies and platforms; develop recommendations and improvement plans
- Day to day:
- Perform host based analysis, artifact analysis, network packet analysis, and malware analysis in support of security investigations and incident response
- Coordinate investigation, containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and groups
- Develop and maintain effective documentation; including response playbooks, processes, and other supporting operational material




- Perform quality assurance review of analyst investigations and work product; develop feedback and development reports
- Provide mentoring of junior staff and serve as point of escalation for higher severity incidents
- Develop incident analysis and findings reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvement
- Recommend or develop new detection logic and tune existing sensors / security controls
- Work with security solutions owners to assess existing security solutions array ability to detect / mitigate the abovementioned TTPs
- Creating custom SIEM queries and dashboards to support the monitoring and detection of advanced TTPs against Novartis network
**Minimum Requirements**:
**Work Experience**:
- 5+ years of experience in Incident Response / Computer Forensics / CSOC team / Threat Hunting or related fields
- Experience in reporting to and communicating with senior level management (with and without IT background, with and without in depth risk management background) on incident response topics




- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate information risk-related and incident response concepts to technical as well as nontechnical audiences
- Excellent understanding and knowledge of general IT infrastructure technology and systems
- Proven experience to initiate and manage projects that will affect CSOC services and technologies
- Experienced IT administration with broad and in-depth technical, analytical and conceptual skills
**Skills**:
- Good mediation and facilitation skills
- Good knowledge of IT Security Project Management
- Experience with security incident monitoring and response related to medical devices
- Knowledge of (information) risk management related standards or frameworks such as COSO, ISO ****x, CobiT, ISO *****, BS *****, NIST, ISF Standard of Good Practice and ITIL
- Knowledge of security frameworks such as Hitrust
- Host and network based forensic collection and analysis
- Dynamic malware analysis, reverse engineering, and/or scripting abilities
- Understanding of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) and associated tactics.
- Research, enrichment, and searching of indicators of compromise
- Very strong team and interpersonal skills along with the ability to work independently and achieve individual goals.
- Coordinate with other team members to achieve the specified objectives.
- Effective oral and written communication skills
Division
Operations
Business Unit
CTS
Location
Mexico
Site
INSURGENTES
Company / Legal Entity
MX06 (FCRS = MX006) Novartis Farmacéutica S.A. de C.V.
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No

📌 Associate Director Ddit Isc Detection & Response (Xico)
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