Junior SOC Analyst

We serve more than two million consumer, small business and commercial clients. Since 1986, the bank has grown through more than a dozen acquisitions. Founded in 1986, we now have 9,500 employees. Cash audits are unannounced, and balancing to the penny is expected.

About the role:

This is a newly created position. We need someone who writes up incidents clearly enough that the next shift can pick them up without asking. This role handles alert triage, phishing investigations and vulnerability tracking for about 3,000 endpoints. Our team is spread across 17 countries. Headquarters is in Springfield. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. Please make sure you have dependable internet and backup power.

Main duties:

• Analyse reported phishing emails, check headers and URLs, and purge malicious messages.
• 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.
• Monitor and triage alerts in Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar or Elastic SIEM.
• Hand off open cases at shift change with clear notes.
• Document incidents with timeline, impact and root cause.
• Investigate endpoint alerts in CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne or Defender for Endpoint.

Required qualifications:

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

Preferred:

• SOAR platforms such as Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR or Tines.
• Malware analysis in a sandbox.
• Cloud log analysis (CloudTrail, Entra ID sign-in logs)
• Prior help desk or network administration experience.

Schedule: Day shift with one week of on-call every six weeks

Rate: $780-$1,000/month

Benefits:

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Company laptop.
• Paid time off.
• Paid in USD.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

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