Graduate Cyber Security Analyst

Annual revenue from managed services has grown every year since 1984. Pebblegrid protects more than 4,000 organisations, from regional hospitals to Fortune 500 manufacturers.

Role overview:

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. Pebblegrid is hiring for the Graduate Cyber Security Analyst role to monitor, investigate and respond to security alerts across our environment. We are headquartered in Phoenix and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Sri Lanka, with a local contract and salary paid in Sri Lankan rupees. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

What you'll be doing:

• Monitor and triage alerts in Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar or Elastic SIEM
• Report on security awareness training and phishing simulation results
• Review firewall, proxy, VPN and authentication logs for suspicious activity
• Document incidents with timeline, impact and root cause
• Tune noisy detection rules with the security engineering team
• Analyse reported phishing emails, check headers and URLs, and purge malicious messages

About you:

• 1-2 years in an SOC, security analyst or IT security role
• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (or ability to obtain within six months)
• Experience reading Windows Event Logs, Sysmon and Linux logs
• Must be able to pass a background check
• Working knowledge of SIEM and EDR tools
• Clear written communication for incident tickets and reports

Schedule: Rotating 12-hour shifts on a 2-2-3 schedule, including nights

Compensation and benefits:

Rate: LKR 225,000 - LKR 270,000 a month

• Company laptop
• Monthly internet allowance
• Co-working space stipend
• Flexible hours
• Wellness allowance

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Pebblegrid LLC.