Senior Cyber Security Analyst

The firm is employee-owned, with its largest studio in Kathmandu.

The position

We are adding a Senior Cyber Security Analyst to our Information Security team. We need someone who writes up incidents clearly enough that the next shift can pick them up without asking. Security analyst role covering detection, incident response and some compliance work. Good fit for someone two or three years into security. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Nepal. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

Job duties

• Monitor and triage alerts in Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar or Elastic SIEM.
• 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.
• Help with user access reviews and offboarding audits.
• Hand off open cases at shift change with clear notes.

Minimum qualifications

• 5+ years in an SOC, security analyst or IT security role.
• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (or ability to obtain within six months)
• Clear written communication for incident tickets and reports.
• Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and common ports and protocols.
• Must be able to pass a background check.

Preferred qualifications

• KQL or SPL query writing.
• CySA+, GCIH, GCIA or BTL1 certification.
• Malware analysis in a sandbox.

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

Salary range: NPR 98,000 to NPR 115,000 pcm

Perks and benefits

• Flexible hours.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Within 30 days.

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