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Senior SOC Analyst

Sochin Technologies-Johannesburg, South Africa

Senior SoC Analyst
- Blue Team

Our client is a collaborative cyber security outsourcing partner working closely with our clients in determining skills and capabilities required to achieve their strategic objectives and address their cyber security challenges. We deliver this through our talented offshore teams that are aligned to our staffing philosophy of career growth and employee reward.

We are looking to hire Senior SOC Analyst based in South Africa working for an Australian client.

Shift
- 3pm 11pm

Remote/ hybrid work set up

  • but have access to office-based in Sandton
  • JHB or Umhlanga
  • DBN.

The following are the key responsibilities of the role:
Investigation and response to client SIEM alerts

  • Ownership through to resolution of managed SIEM alerts
  • Liaison with clients to provide updates on investigation status
  • Incident closure once appropriate action has been taken
  • Tuning of client SIEM rules to reduce false-positive rate

Monitoring of client digital attack surface exposures

  • Ownership through to resolution of customer-impacting exposures
  • Liaison with clients to provide updates on exposure status
  • Escalation to senior resources for complex exposures
  • Closure of exposures once appropriate action has been taken
  • Review of new assets discovered by the attack surface management platform

Assisting with digital forensics and incident response

  • Perform forensic tasks, including image acquisition and review
  • Leverage SOC knowledge in investigating attack chains for breaches

Client report writing and quality assurance reviews

  • Issuing of periodic cyber security reports for managed service clients
  • QA for consultant reports (e.g. assessment and compliance reports)

Managed security service projects

  • Onboarding of new clients to managed services platforms
  • Integration of new log sources for existing managed SIEM clients
  • Development of managed incident response playbooks
  • Other cyber security project work as required

Requirements:
At least 3 years SOC analyst experience.

ITIL foundations (nice to have not essential)