Cyber Security Operations Engineer

We are looking for a highly skilled Cloud Security Analyst to join our team. As a Cloud Security Analyst, you will be responsible for the validation and analysis of investigations within the Security Operations Center (SOC). You will also be responsible for monitoring, validating, and analyzing events and alerts on AWS Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS applications, and on-prem infrastructure.

You will provide expert analysis of Cloudtrail, CloudWatch, VPC Flow logs for event/incident analysis. Additionally, you will guide and support automated security alerts and use cases in AWS cloud. You will also carry out triage of incoming issues, assess the priority of the event, determine the incident risk and damage or appropriate routing of security or privacy data request.

You will proactively identify vulnerabilities across the entire infrastructure environments and suggest updating of SIEM use cases to generate alerts. You will also be available 'on call' for rare 'fire drill' scenarios, such as high-critical incident response scenarios or emergent imminent widespread threats requiring urgent action.

You will provide communication and escalation throughout the incident per the SOC guidelines. You will also identify and manage a wide range of intelligence sources to provide a holistic view of the threat landscape and filter out noise in order to focus and execute upon actionable intelligence.

All security events and incidents (internal/external) will be logged into Jira and regularly updated and closed within the set SLA's. You will lead the development of actionable use cases to detect, triage, investigate and remediate based on latest threat actor trends, support teams with the technical implementation of parsing log sources creating, validating and testing alerting queries to reduce false positives.

• Minimum 3+ years of operational experience preferred in security operations center, threat intelligence, insider threat operations, threat management, cyber security, information security or related functions.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Systems, or a related field/experience is required. Experience within financial services areas is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of Security Methodologies and Frameworks.

• Experience in Highly available 24x7 Enterprise Operational Environment
• Familiarity with cloud architecture/infrastructure and general networking principles.
• Experience with virtualization technologies, especially with AWS services.
• Strong demonstrated knowledge of web protocols, common attacks, and an in-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture.
• System administration, configuration and patch management, zone security, firewall and IAM
• SOC/Pen-Tester/Purple Team/Threat Intelligence/Threat Hunting or similar background, or demonstrable experience through self-study
• Proven success in working SOC function/team, including (but not limited to): Experience maintaining metrics, reporting and SLAs, Security operations experience with operating systems, AWS cloud infrastructures, Familiarity or experience in Intelligence Driven Defense, Cyber Kill Chain methodology, and/or MITRE ATT&CK framework, Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, Experience around security processes and technologies, Ability to research, analyze, and resolve complex problems with minimal supervision and escalate issues as appropriate, Thorough documentation skills, Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, Must be a highly motivated individual with the ability to self-start, prioritize, and multi-task

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Flexible work arrangements including remote work options.
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.