What you’ll
be doing

Verizon is a Fortune 500 company and prides in servicing 99% of Fortune 500 companies and Government agencies for
advanced networking and security solutions. In support of our world leading position in Cyber Security, Verizon offers
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) services to help our customers strengthen cyber resilience across the
enterprise helping them monitor and defend their infrastructure against the ever evolving cyber threats.
As a CERT Consultant, you will work as a contact and communications point between our security services team and
customers’ security and IT staff as well as users and other important stakeholders. You will also be responsible for
operating the incident management process in accordance with the procedures designed in cooperation with customer.
On a day to day basis, you will assist with, identify and respond to incidents as well as proactively propose improvements
for how to reduce risk and potential future incidents.

•  Receiving and monitoring incident information from our managed security services and other sources.
•  Reviewing the collected incident data and confirming or rejecting incidents based on the analysis.
•  Classifying and prioritizing incidents based on established criteria.
•  Facilitating communication between stakeholders of the incident status
•  Coordinating the containment effort based on the available information and established processes.
•  Performing vulnerability management using the Qualys tool.
•  Making containment decisions and facilitating decision making by other parties using established escalation
  processes.
•  Communicating with affected users and stakeholders to organize the containment effort.
•  Identifying the attack vector used by incident and taking actions to confirm that similar incidents are prevented in
  the future.
•  Coordinating forensics and law enforcement activities with officials as necessary.
•  Updating stakeholders on the status of the recovery effort, and conducting root cause analysis for the incident.
•  Communicating the results of the root cause analysis to the customer and stakeholders to prevent similar incidents
  in the future
•  Conducting proactive management of the Monitoring and Analytics solution.

You’ll need
to have

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.
•  Experience in Security incident detection or Security incident management.
•  Knowledge of Network and Web Application vulnerability assessments.
•  Experience structuring and operating an efficient Incident Response process.

Even better
if you have

• Demonstrated strong communication skills and the capability to engage with customers at both technical and
  executive levels.
• Strong problem-solving and security analytics skills and the ability to identify gaps in processes and
  recommend improvements for mitigation.
•  Prior experience in security operations, risk management, operational management, and/or consultant
  management
• Knowledge of common types of malware, their infection vectors, how to identify them using network and host
  based tools, and how to eradicate them and verify the success of eradication efforts
• Knowledge of current security threats and vulnerabilities and how to detect and mitigate them, and the ability
  to understand their possible consequences on the customer’s environment
• Understanding of modern technologies used to detect malware and vulnerabilities and protect assets
  • SIEM (SPLUNK) and log analytics skills
  • SANS or other Security certifications, such as GCIA, GCIH, GREM, GPEN, CEH
  • CISSP certification and/or CISM certification
  • ITIL Foundations training/certification
  • Knowledge of ISO 27001 requirements

How to apply

Please contact the recruiting supervisor Jyri Ryhänen directly by email: jyri.ryhanen@fi.verizon.com

When you
join Verizon

You’ll be doing work that matters alongside other talented people, transforming the way people, businesses and
things connect with each other. Beyond powering America’s fastest and most reliable network, we’re leading the
way in broadband, cloud and security solutions, Internet of Things and innovating in areas such as, video
entertainment. Of course, we will offer you great pay and benefits, but we’re about more than that. Verizon is a
place where you can craft your own path to greatness. Whether you think in code, words, pictures or numbers,
find your future at Verizon.

To learn more visit verizon.com/jobs