Junior SOC Analyst

Our field services team covers retail chains, hospitals and banks, dispatching technicians to over 4,000 sites. Headquartered in North Charleston, the company has grown since 2002 by acquiring regional IT providers. Founded in 2002, we now have 540 employees.

POSITION SUMMARY

This is a backfill for a team member who moved to another team. Westbury Technology Group is hiring for the Junior SOC Analyst role to monitor, investigate and respond to security alerts across our environment. We are headquartered in North Charleston and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a full-time remote role. We use an employer of record in North Macedonia, so you get a proper employment contract, not a freelance agreement. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL

• Investigate endpoint alerts in CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne or Defender for Endpoint.
• Analyse reported phishing emails, check headers and URLs, and purge malicious messages.
• Help with user access reviews and offboarding audits.
• Run vulnerability scans with Tenable Nessus, Qualys or Rapid7 and track remediation with system owners.
• Check threat intelligence feeds and IOCs against our environment.
• Tune noisy detection rules with the security engineering team.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 1-2 years in an SOC, security analyst or IT security role.
• Working knowledge of SIEM and EDR tools.
• Must be able to pass a background check.
• Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Experience reading Windows Event Logs, Sysmon and Linux logs.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• KQL or SPL query writing.
• Prior help desk or network administration experience.
• CySA+, GCIH, GCIA or BTL1 certification.
• Cloud log analysis (CloudTrail, Entra ID sign-in logs)

Pay: MKD 145,000 - MKD 185,000 monthly

BENEFITS

• Public holidays observed per your country.
• Company laptop.
• Annual learning budget.
• Flexible hours.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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