SOC Analyst

The SOC The soc analyst will be responsible for protecting IFZA’s

information systems identifying, assessing and mitigating security risks. This role involves monitoring, analyzing,and responding to security incidents, implementing security measures, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and reglations. The ideal candidate is proactive, detail-oriented, and possesses strong technical and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

Security Monitoring

• Monitor SIEM dashboards (e.g.,
• Microsoft Sentinel) and security alerts in real time.
• Track and analyze events from
• security tools (eg . Microsoft Defender)
• Identify suspicious activities,
• anomalies, or policy violations.

Incident Triage & Response

• Perform initial investigation
• and classification of alerts (false positive vs true positive).
• Collect and review logs, event
• details, reputation information, and indicators of compromise.
• Escalate confirmed or
• high-severity incidents to L2/L3 analysts with proper documentation.
• Initiate predefined response
• actions (isolating devices, forcing password resets, blocking IPs).

Threat Analysis

• Check IOC hits against threat
• intelligence sources.
• Analyze phishing emails,
• malwareinfections,
• malicious URLs, attachments, credential-harvesting attempts andunauthorizedaccess.
• Identify trends across alerts
• to support early-stage threat detection.

Documentation & Reporting

• Create detailed incident
• tickets and investigation notes.
• Conductrootcauseanalysisanddocumentincidentreportswithremediationrecommendations.
• Maintain proper incident
• timelines and updates in the ticketing system.
• Generate reports for repeated
• or trending issues.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Security Team
• and internal IT teams.
• Communicate effectively with
• users to validate suspicious activities or login attempts.
• Follow established SOPs and
• contribute to process improvements.

SecurityAwarenessandTraining

Conductsecurityawarenesstrainingforemployeestopromotebestpractices(e.g.,passwordmanagement,phishingprevention).

Createanddistributeeducationalmaterialsonemergingcyberthreats.

ThreatIntelligenceandResearch

Stayupdatedonthelatestcyberthreats,vulnerabilities,andattackvectors.

Analyzethreatintelligencereportsandapplyfindingstoenhanceorganizationalsecurityposture.

Requirements

Bachelor’s inengineering,ComputerScience,orrelatedfield.

5-7yearsofexperienceinSOC

• operations.
• Minimum3+yearshands-onexperienceinSOC,blue team,orsecurityengineeringroles.
• ProvenexpertisewithMicrosoftSentinel,MicrosoftDefender,Incidentmanagement
• and compromisedrecovery.
• SolidgraspofTCP/IP,Windows/Linuxinternals,AWS/Azuresecurityprimitives.
• Scriptingforautomation(Python,Bash,orPowerShell).
• FamiliaritywithMITREATTACKmappingandthreat-huntingmethodology.

CompTIASecurity+,Microsoft

SC-200, CEH,CCNAorCCNP-Security.

Benefits

• International team (over 50 nationalities)
• 24 annual leave days
• Annual flight home
• Life insurance plan
• Medical insurance plan (with the option to upgrade at your own cost)
• Invitations to participate in various company functions, staff events, and department team building events
• Opportunities to learn, develop and grow with the organization
• Being part of a motivated team and Moving-Forward-Company-Culture