Senior Cyber Security Analyst

About the company:

Most work comes in through ConnectWise tickets, with a dispatch board for onsite visits.

About the role:

We are adding a Senior Cyber Security Analyst to our operations team. The operations team runs a 24/7 SOC. We need someone who can work through an alert queue and tell which ones matter. Security analyst role covering detection, incident response and some compliance work. Good fit for someone two or three years into security. We are headquartered in Dubai and have been hiring remotely since 2020. We engage team members in India as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will work Dubai business hours, Monday to Friday. Reliable internet and a power backup are a must.

Job duties:

• Monitor and triage alerts in Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar or Elastic SIEM
• Tune noisy detection rules with the security engineering team
• Write and update SOC runbooks and playbooks
• Analyse reported phishing emails, check headers and URLs, and purge malicious messages

Who you are:

• 5+ years in an SOC, security analyst or IT security role
• Must be able to pass a background check
• Basic scripting in PowerShell or Python
• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (or ability to obtain within six months)

Schedule: Four 10-hour shifts, Sunday to Wednesday, 6:00 AM to 4:30 PM

What you get:

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Flexible hours

Duration: 6 months. Start: Flexible.

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