Information Security Analyst

About West IT

West IT is a small IT shop: the owner, four technicians and a part-time office manager. Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules.

The role

West IT is hiring for the Information Security Analyst role to monitor, investigate and respond to security alerts across our environment. Security analyst role covering detection, incident response and some compliance work. Good fit for someone two or three years into security. The company is based in Karlsruhe, Germany. The team is distributed across several countries. We hire in South Africa through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Working hours overlap with Central European Time.

What you'll do

• Tune noisy detection rules with the security engineering team
• Run vulnerability scans with Tenable Nessus, Qualys or Rapid7 and track remediation with system owners
• Help with user access reviews and offboarding audits
• Write and update SOC runbooks and playbooks
• Check threat intelligence feeds and IOCs against our environment

Requirements

• 3+ 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

Preferred

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

Compensation and benefits

• 20 days paid time off
• Home office setup budget
• Paid sick days
• Wellness allowance

Start: Within 30 days.

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