Cybersecurity Analyst (SOC) - Entry Level

Company Overview

SPTS division of KLA designs, manufactures and markets wafer processing solutions for the global semiconductor and related industries. SPTS provides industry‑leading etch and deposition process technologies on a range of single wafer handling platforms. End‑market applications include micro‑electromechanical systems (MEMS), advanced packaging, LED, high‑speed RF device IC’s and power semiconductors. SPTS is part of KLA Corporation which develops industry‑leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry.

Job Description / Preferred Qualifications

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 is responsible for 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

• Participates as an active member of the team, which monitors and processes responses for security events on a 24x7 basis.
• Security alert monitoring, triage, and analysis to prioritise and differentiate between potential intrusion attempts and false alarms.
• Actively perform detection, monitoring, analysis, and resolution of security incidents.
• Participate in the execution of regular incident response and postmortem exercises.
• Facilitate the development and tuning of AV, EDR, SIEM, and DLP rules to ensure high fidelity alerting.
• Communication with management as the need arises: keeping informed of incident progress, notifying of impending changes or agreed outages.
• Generate reports from different data sources and present to management as required.
• Must be able to maintain awareness of trends in security regulatory, technology, and operational requirements.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities

• Some domestic and/or international travel (up to 10%) may be required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Related experience in cybersecurity or related technologies such as: firewalls/AV/EDR/IPS/IDS/SIEM, and forensic tools.
• Experience working in or with a Security Operations Center (SOC) in an Incident Responder role.
• Experience in various Operating Systems (Windows/Linux/Mac).
• Technical awareness: ability to match resources to technical issues appropriately.
• Ability to communicate clearly with other team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in an Information Security/related IT field.
• Relevant security related certification(s) a plus: GCIA, GSEC, GCIH, GCED, GCFA, GREM.

What We Will Offer You?

KLA's benefits package includes: Annual leave starting at 25 days (plus bank holidays), contributory pension scheme, cash health plan, cycle to work scheme, global bonus plan, share scheme, rewards scheme and life assurance! We offer a competitive, family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment, while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees. KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.