IT Compliance and Security/SOC Analyst

About the role

A security analyst plays a vital role in protecting the organization’s digital assets, networks, and infrastructure against cyber threats. This candidate will monitor security tools, perform analysis and triage on escalated threats from our external SOC, investigate potential incidents, perform daily threat hunts, and support threat remediation workflows. This role is ideal for a proactive detailed-oriented professional who looks to build a strong foundation in enterprise incident response, threat detection and security posture maintenance.

Responsibilities

Alert Triage and Monitoring

• Triage alerts from Microsoft tools, such as Defender XDR, Intune, Purview, and email gateway security solutions
• Conduct initial analysis to distinguish genuine security incidents between false positives and benign positives
• Escalate P1 alerts to leadership and fellow security analysts in accordance with established SLAs

Incident Response and Investigations

• Execute response playbooks according to NIST SP 800-61/cyber kill chain standards for common threat vectors such as phishing, malware executive, unauthorized access, and compromised accounts
• Apply containment measures including isolating affected endpoints, revoking compromised sessions, resetting of credentials, and blocking malicious indicators (IOCs)

Continuous Improvement and Documentation

• Contribute to the development and improvement of security awareness training and materials for employees
• Maintain precise, detailed reports of investigation