# Senior Security Specialist

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

The Senior Security Specialist serves as the first line of defence for security-related communications received by the organisation on the generic security mailbox.

The role performs advanced investigations of security-related communications, drives process improvement initiatives, and serves as a primary escalation point for complex mailbox-related security incidents.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Mailbox Monitoring & Triage**

- Continuously monitor Target's primary security mailbox and take necessary actions on incoming emails according to severity.

- Investigate and handle initial escalations from security mailbox incidents and issues.

- Act as a primary coordinator between various stakeholders and the Triage team to handle incidents and issues.

- Review incoming submissions and alerts, allocating or taking action accordingly.

- Prioritise requests based on risk and severity from the generic security mailbox.

- Ensure adherence to response SLAs that vary according to email severity.

- Perform initial screening, categorisation, routing, and deeper investigation of emails in the security mailbox.

**Security Analysis**

- Analyse phishing submissions.

- Investigate suspicious email activity.

- Perform root cause analysis for serious issues triggered through the mailbox.

- Support and coordinate with stakeholder teams to contain threats.

- Review suspicious links and domains, taking appropriate action.

- Assess suspicious attachments and take action or inform relevant security teams.

- Validate reported security concerns and initiate action.

- Identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) that may affect Target.

- Ensure accurate documentation of serious cases and drive them for closure.

**Additional Responsibilities**

- Respond to security-related inquiries.

- Educate users on security best practices.

- Provide clear guidance to reporters.

- Maintain professional communication standards.

- Escalate incidents according to severity.

- Coordinate with Cyber Defence teams.

- Engage Incident Response teams when required.

- Ensure critical incidents receive immediate attention.

- Contribute to knowledge articles.

- Identify recurring attack patterns.

- Recommend process improvements.

- Participate in team training activities.

**Security Knowledge**

- Email security fundamentals.

- Phishing techniques and handling.

- Malware fundamentals and social engineering attacks.

- Analytical thinking and good communication skills with ownership and accountability.

**Experience**

- 3-4 years of cybersecurity experience.

- Experience in SOC or security operations or security mailbox management for a large organisation.

- Experience handling phishing and security investigations is preferred.

- Worked heavily towards metrics/SOP/KPIs in a large team and focusing on results.

**Certifications**

- Experience in MS Office 365/Security+/Certified SOC Analyst

## Skills

### Required
- MS Office 365
- Security+
- Certified SOC Analyst
- Email security fundamentals
- Phishing techniques
- Malware fundamentals
- Social engineering attacks

### Nice to have
- 3-4 years of cybersecurity experience
- SOC or security operations experience
- Security mailbox management experience
- Phishing and security investigations experience

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