Cybersecurity Analyst

About Wheatear Academy:

The platform hosts certification programs for several professional associations.

The role:

Wheatear Academy is looking for a Cybersecurity Analyst to join a small, steady team. Security analyst role covering detection, incident response and some compliance work. Good fit for someone two or three years into security. Remote within Italy. The team meets in Turin once a quarter, travel covered. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

In your first few months you will:

• Write and update SOC runbooks and playbooks
• Monitor and triage alerts in Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar or Elastic SIEM
• Tune noisy detection rules with the security engineering team
• Report on security awareness training and phishing simulation results
• Escalate confirmed incidents and follow the incident response plan
• Run vulnerability scans with Tenable Nessus, Qualys or Rapid7 and track remediation with system owners
• Review firewall, proxy, VPN and authentication logs for suspicious activity

About you:

• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (or ability to obtain within six months)
• Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and common ports and protocols
• Basic scripting in PowerShell or Python
• Clear written communication for incident tickets and reports
• Working knowledge of SIEM and EDR tools
• Ability to work shifts, including some nights, weekends or holidays as scheduled

Pluses:

• SOAR platforms such as Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR or Tines

Perks and benefits:

Pay: €14,000-€17,000 annually

• Private health insurance
• Training budget
• Flexible remuneration plan
• Remote work allowance
• Meal vouchers

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Wheatear Academy S.n.c..