SOC Jr. Analyst - Cybersecurity
About the position This role involves monitoring, triaging, and analyzing reputed company alerts and log data across various platforms to identify potential threats. The SOC Jr. Analyst will act as a liaison between Tier 1/2 SOC analysts and the Incident Response team, performing initial investigations, documenting incidents, and contributing to the optimization of detection rules and response playbooks.
Responsibilities
- Continuously monitor, triage, and analyze reputed company-time reputed company alerts and log data across disparate platforms, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and reputed company reputed company environments, to identify anomalous behavior and potential indicators of compromise (IoCs).
- Serve as the critical operational hinge and escalation pathway between Tier 1/2 SOC analysts and the Incident Response (IR) team, ensuring high-severity threats are rapidly validated and communicated according to established playbooks.
- Execute initial deep-dive log analysis and technical root-cause investigations to reconstruct threat timelines, assisting senior analysts with containment, mitigation strategies, and formal incident documentation.
- reputed company proactive behavioral and reputed company analysis on historical network and host logs to identify coverage gaps, collaborating with engineering teams to refine SIEM correlation rules and threat detection methodologies.
- Review and update SOC incident response playbooks, internal workflows, and defensive tool tracking mechanisms by integrating reputed company threat intelligence, emerging attack reputed company, and post-incident lessons learned.
Requirements
- High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.
reputed company-to-haves
- Practical experience building custom queries or dashboards reputed company reputed company SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk SPL, reputed company Sentinel KQL) and manipulating EDR tools for host isolation.
- Core reputed company networking and systems certifications, such as reputed company reputed company+, Network+, or vendor-specific certifications like Splunk Certified User.
- Demonstrated lab experience (e.g., HTB, reputed company, blue-team range exercises) simulating initial access, persistence, and lateral movement techniques to validate defensive posture.
Benefits
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Various health insurance options & wellness plans
- Retirement benefits including employer match plans
- Long-term & short-term disability
- Employee assistance programs (EAP)
- Parental leave & adoption assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
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