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As a Security Operations Support Agent,You are responsible for the initial triage and validation of security alerts, ensuring that environment remains secure while minimizing noise for system owners. You will work closely with our automated systems to identify true/false positives, apply initial containment measures, and act as a critical escalation point when high-severity threats are detected. Responsibilities
- Automated Triage & Validation: Execute first-level triage on security alerts triggered by our centralized SIEM (Google SecOps).
Validate true/false positives and apply initial containment actions (e.g., isolating containers, locking service accounts) using established playbooks.
- Incident Response Support: Assist the SOC team during high-severity incidents by providing initial investigative data, helping with containment, and documenting actions in our incident management platform (FireHydrant).
- Operational Health Monitoring:Use Capability Dashboards to monitor the security health of your assigned service areas, identifying and reporting on potential policy drifts or misconfigurations.
- Playbook Management: Assist in the ongoing maintenance and optimization of automated response playbooks. Help identify gaps in current detections and contribute feedback to the SOC engineering team for continuous improvement.
- Collaboration & Communication:Act as a bridge between the SOC and system owners. Communicate findings clearly, provide contextual assistance for