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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Symantec Recruits IT Graduates

About Symantec:

Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries.

Symantec employs over 17,500 employees worldwide. Visit us at www.symantec.com to know more.

Symantec India:

The Symantec India centres in Pune and Chennai comprise of over 2400 world class professionals actively engaged in
- Product Research & Development
- Information Technology development & support
- Technical Support services for our world wide customers.

Symantec in India has established a Strong brand as Employer of Choice based on its W2C2 model that focuses on:
- Challenging Work
- Open Work environment
- Competitive Compensation and
- Career development
Designation Security Analyst (IDS/IPS)
Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Senior Security Analyst position in Symantec’s Managed Security Services is responsible for assessing security threats and risks involving client infrastructure.
  • The senior security analyst works within a global analysis 24x7x365 team to further support the timely delivery of monitoring services and support across multiple customers in different geographies across the globe.
  • This includes troubleshooting and resolution of security issues on behalf of clients. The senior analyst addresses complex or difficult problems as needed, or in conjunction with other team members.
  • To ensure operational efficiencies analysts are assigned to different weekday and weekend shift schedule, and need to demonstrate abilities to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Desired Profile
  • Assisting in the review of customer security logs on a real-time basis
  • Assessing the impact of traffic on customer networks
  • Adherence to established internal procedures and guidelines
  • Assisting with Security Analyst shifts as required
  • Articulating security issues to customers, both verbally and written
  • Responding to customer security questions
  • Understanding current vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures
  • Conducting research on emerging security threats
  • Contributing to the internal knowledgebase
  • Performing analysis demonstrations for customers
  • Participating in customer conference calls
  • Adjusting the backend technology system
  • Fulfilling more complex ad-hoc queries
  • Mentoring and training security analysts
  • Auditing work results
  • Serving as an internal escalation point of contact
  • Serving in the on-call rotation
  • Identifying opportunities to improve the service

Experience 3 - 8 Years
Industry Type IT-Software/ Software Services
Role System Security
Functional Area IT-Other
Education UG - Any Graduate - Any Specialization
PG - Any PG Course - Any Specialization
Location Chennai
Keywords Penetration, IDS, IPS, Snort, Log Analysis, GCIA, GCIH, CEH
Contact Swati Halale
Symantec Pune
Symantec DLF IT Park,5th Floor,Tower
1A,1/24,Mount Ponnamalle Road,Chennai 600089
CHENNAI,Tamilnadu,India 600001
Website http://www.symantec.com
Job Posted 25 Jan