Company OverviewKLA is a global leader in diversified electronics for the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem. Virtually every electronic device in the world is produced using our technologies. No laptop, smartphone, wearable device, voice-controlled gadget, flexible screen, VR device or smart car would have made it into your hands without us. KLA invents systems and solutions for the manufacturing of wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, printed circuit boards and flat panel displays.  The innovative ideas and devices that are advancing humanity all begin with inspiration, research and development. KLA focuses more than average on innovation and we invest 15% of sales back into R&D. Our expert teams of physicists, engineers, data scientists and problem-solvers work together with the world's leading technology providers to accelerate the delivery of tomorrow's electronic devices. Life here is exciting and our teams thrive on tackling really hard problems. There is never a dull moment with us.

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 advanced 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:

Act as an active member of the team, which monitors and process responses for security events on a 24x7 basis to include serving in a rotational on-call capacity

IDS monitoring and analysis, analyze network traffic, log analysis, prioritize and differentiate between potential intrusion attempts and false alarms

Proactively monitor SIEM, EDR, and network based alerts, and respond to active threats to internal networks

Actively preform detection, monitoring, analysis, and resolution of security incidents

Plan and implement regular incident response and postmortem exercises, with a focus on crafting measurable benchmarks to show progress (or deficiencies requiring additional attention)

Review and analyze cyber threats and provide SME support and training to junior level security analysts

Transform threat intelligence into effective detection logic and new signatures for integration with SIEM and EDR platforms

Evaluate existing detection rules and facilitate the development and tuning of AV, EDR, and SIEM rules to ensure high fidelity alerting

Communication with management as required, keeping leaders informed of incident progress, notifying of impending changes or agreed outages

Prioritize their own work to provide a positive customer experience

Must maintain awareness of trends in security regulatory, technology, and operational requirements

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

Some domestic and/or international travel (up to 25%) may be required

Ability to communicate clearly with other team members in a hybrid environment

Generate reports from different data sources and present to management when requested

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in a Computer Science, Cybersecurity or related field is required

3+ years of related experience in cybersecurity or related technologies such as: firewalls/AV/EDR/IPS/IDS/SIEM systems

3+ experience working in or with a Security Ope