Junior SOC Analyst

The company:

Regional offices in London and five other cities support agents and policyholders. Catastrophe teams deploy adjusters within days of a major storm. Founded in 1988, we now have 4,900 employees. Most of the office has been here more than ten years.

Yewbench Assurance is hiring for the Junior SOC Analyst role to monitor, investigate and respond to security alerts across our environment. We are headquartered in London 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.

Job duties:

• Escalate confirmed incidents and follow the incident response plan.
• Write and update SOC runbooks and playbooks.
• Analyse reported phishing emails, check headers and URLs, and purge malicious messages.
• Run vulnerability scans with Tenable Nessus, Qualys or Rapid7 and track remediation with system owners.
• Check threat intelligence feeds and IOCs against our environment.
• Document incidents with timeline, impact and root cause.
• Review firewall, proxy, VPN and authentication logs for suspicious activity.

Skills and experience:

• Ability to work shifts, including some nights, weekends or holidays as scheduled.
• Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (or ability to obtain within six months)

Pluses:

• Malware analysis in a sandbox.
• Cloud log analysis (CloudTrail, Entra ID sign-in logs)
• Prior help desk or network administration experience.

Schedule: Second shift, 2:00 PM to 10:30 PM, Monday to Friday

Why work with us:

PKR 250,000-PKR 300,000 per month

• Flexible hours.
• 20 days paid time off.
• Co-working space stipend.
• Annual team retreat.
• Monthly internet allowance.

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

Start: Immediately.

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