Junior SOC Analyst - Remote

Company overview:

Our technicians handle onsite and remote support for medical offices, accounting firms and manufacturers on fixed monthly contracts. Birmingham Technology Group provides managed IT for offices of 10 to 200 users: help desk, patching, backups, Microsoft 365 and firewall management.

The role:

This is a newly created position. This role handles alert triage, phishing investigations and vulnerability tracking for about 3,000 endpoints. We are headquartered in Birmingham and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Pakistan, with a local contract and salary paid in Pakistani rupees. You will need to be available during UK office hours, at least until 3:00 PM GMT. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

In this role you will:

• Monitor and triage alerts in Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar or Elastic SIEM
• Check threat intelligence feeds and IOCs against our environment
• Report on security awareness training and phishing simulation results
• Investigate endpoint alerts in CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne or Defender for Endpoint
• Help with user access reviews and offboarding audits
• Document incidents with timeline, impact and root cause
• Write and update SOC runbooks and playbooks

Required qualifications:

• 1-2 years in an SOC, security analyst or IT security role
• Working knowledge of SIEM and EDR tools
• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (or ability to obtain within six months)
• Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and common ports and protocols

Preferred qualifications:

• Malware analysis in a sandbox
• CySA+, GCIH, GCIA or BTL1 certification
• SOAR platforms such as Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR or Tines

What you get:

Compensation: PKR 105,000 - PKR 135,000 per month

• Flexible hours
• 24 days paid time off
• Home office setup budget
• Company laptop
• Paid parental leave
• Annual team retreat

Please submit your CV in English.

We review applications as they come in.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Birmingham Technology Group.