Sr. IS Analyst - Security Operations

At Franklin Templeton, we believe success is built through powerful partnerships. As a forward thinking asset manager, we build dynamic relationships with clients, understand their goals, and navigate complex markets together. We leverage cutting edge strategies and deep insights to unlock opportunities for long term wealth creation. Our talented, global teams bring expertise that is both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and supportive culture to our globally diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential, but also to contribute to our clients' success. Role Scope Independently monitor, triage, investigate, and respond to security alerts and incidents while coordinating containment, remediation, and escalation activities. The role is expected to handle most day-to-day SOC investigations, improve detection quality, contribute to threat hunting, maintain strong case documentation, and provide guidance to analysts when required.

Perform detailed investigation of suspicious activity across endpoints, network, identity, email, cloud, applications, and other enterprise security technologies. Validate alerts, determine scope and impact, identify affected users, systems, accounts, and data, and distinguish true positives from false positives. Lead and support incident response activities across the incident lifecycle, including detection, analysis, containment coordination, remediation tracking, recovery support, and closure documentation. Perform root cause analysis for security incidents and document evidence, timeline, impact, actions taken, remediation recommendations, and lessons learned. Conduct threat hunting using threat intelligence, indicators of compromise, behavioral patterns, attack techniques, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.Review, tune, and improve SIEM, EDR, XDR, and related detection rules, correlation logic, alert thresholds, and monitoring use cases to improve detection accuracy and reduce false positives. Identify gaps in logging, monitoring, alerting, detection coverage, escalation, and response processes, and recommend practical improvements. Prepare clear incident reports, investigation summaries, escalation notes, and stakeholder communications for technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborate with security engineering, infrastructure, application, cloud, identity, and business teams to support investigation, containment, remediation, and control improvement. Track remediation actions with responsible teams and ensure incident-related risks, findings, and corrective actions are addressed in a timely manner. Maintain and improve SOC playbooks, runbooks, standard operating procedures, knowledge articles, investigation guides, and response documentation. Ensure alerts, incidents, investigation steps, evidence, decisions, and closure notes are accurately documented in ticketing or case management systems. Support analysts through investigation guidance, knowledge sharing, and review of incident handling quality. Participate in post-incident reviews and identify improvements to detection coverage, response processes, threat hunting, and operational maturity. What will help you be successful in this role Educational background in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, preferably with cybersecurity-focused coursework, specialization, or practical security exposure.4-7 years of hands-on experience in SOC, security operations, incident response, threat detection, security monitoring, or related cybersecurity operations roles. Strong hands-on experience with SIEM and EDR/XDR platforms, including alert investigation, log analysis, case handling, incident scoping, and evidence collection. Strong understanding of security operations concepts, including alert triage, incident response, threat detection, attack techniques, networking fundamentals, operating systems, identity security, cloud security, and core security principles. Ability to analyze logs, alerts, telemetry, user activity, system events, and investigation evidence to identify patterns, anomalies, root cause, and potential security impact. Experience improving detection rules, correlation logic, alert quality, use cases, monitoring coverage, and false positive reduction. Practical knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, threat intelligence, indicators of compromise, attacker behavior, and common threat hunting approaches. Familiarity with common security frameworks and control references such as NIST, CIS, and related industry practices. Exposure to cloud environments, identity and access technologies, email security, network security, endpoint security, threat intelligence, ticketing systems, or security analytics platforms. Basic scripting or automation exposure using Python, PowerShell, APIs, JSON, REST, or similar technologies is a plus, especially for investigation support and operational efficiency. Strong attention to detail, structured thinking, ownership, curiosity, and ability to manage multiple concurrent incidents in a 24x7 operating environment. Effective written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document findings clearly, explain technical observations, and collaborate with stakeholders and leadership.