Security Operations Analyst

🛡️ Security Operations Analyst – Philippines

Join Pax8 Philippines as a Security Operations Analyst and help protect a global technology ecosystem by identifying, investigating, and responding to cyber threats while enabling secure growth for thousands of businesses.

Shape the Future of Security at Pax8

This is an opportunity to be at the heart of a modern, cloud-first security function where your work directly protects our people, partners, platforms, and customers. You'll collaborate with talented security professionals across multiple regions, influence security outcomes, leverage leading-edge technologies, and grow alongside Pax8's ongoing AI-powered transformation. Every day presents new challenges, new threats to investigate, and new opportunities to strengthen our security posture.

A Culture Where You'll Thrive

At Pax8, culture isn't something we talk about—it's something we live every day. We're passionate about innovation, learning, collaboration, and helping small businesses succeed through technology. You'll join a global organization where curiosity is encouraged, diverse perspectives are valued, and security is viewed as a business enabler.

Hybrid Working

We believe the best onboarding happens through collaboration and connection. During your first six months, you'll spend the majority of your time working from our Philippines office, enabling you to build strong relationships, learn from experienced teammates, and accelerate your development. Once established in the role, you'll move into our regular hybrid working pattern.

What You'll Be Doing

🛡️ Monitor, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity alerts and security incidents across a global environment.

🔍 Conduct detailed analysis of security events, determine risk levels, and coordinate appropriate response and remediation activities.

⚡ Drive incident triage and escalation efforts, helping minimize business impact while ensuring efficient resolution.

☁️ Support the ongoing security of cloud environments, SaaS platforms, and enterprise technologies through monitoring and control optimization.

📊 Assess vulnerabilities, provide risk-based prioritization, and guide stakeholders on remediation actions.

🌐 Research emerging threats, analyze threat intelligence, and provide actionable guidance to internal teams and marketplace partners.

🤖 Improve operational efficiency through automation, documentation, and enhancement of security runbooks and processes.

📈 Produce reporting, insights, and metrics that support broader Trust & Security initiatives.

🤝 Partner with technical and business teams to embed security best practices into day-to-day operations and strategic initiatives.

Why This Role Matters

The Security Operations Analyst plays a critical role in maintaining trust across the Pax8 ecosystem. Your work will help prevent incidents, strengthen resilience, improve security decision-making, and ensure our partners and customers can confidently rely on our platform and services.

What You'll Bring

✅ Demonstrated experience operating within a security operations, security engineering, or cybersecurity-focused environment.

✅ Strong understanding of incident response, threat investigation, forensic analysis, vulnerability management, and risk-based prioritization.

✅ Proven experience working with Microsoft security technologies, including solutions such as Defender, Entra, Intune, and security compliance platforms.

✅ Experience leveraging SIEM technologies to investigate security events, identify patterns, and support response activities.

✅ Familiarity with cloud security concepts and securing modern environments across Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or similar platforms.

✅ Knowledge of SaaS security controls, identity security, threat intelligence, or enterprise security monitoring practices.

✅ Ability to communicate technical security findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

✅ A collaborative mindset, strong analytical thinking, curiosity, and a passion for continuous improvement and learning.

Trust and Hiring

At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships — starting with how we hire.

To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you.

We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritizing applications, but hiring decisions are made by our people. More information is available in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we hire or would prefer not to have your application supported by these tools, you can opt out at any part of our process.

Inclusivity

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in Philippines.

What You'll Get

• Competitive salary
• Health and wellbeing benefits
• Learning and development opportunities
• Career progression within a rapidly growing global organization
• Hybrid working environment
• Access to industry-leading technology and AI-enabled tools
• Collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture

Grow Your Career with Us

There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace — whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organization. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive — and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.

About Pax8

Our mission is to build the managed intelligence marketplace and empower small businesses to do more with smarter technology. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organisation with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is also important to us, and at Pax8, it's business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuously. We Celebr8 life.

Background Checks

As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks may be completed for certain countries, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage. Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records.

Equal Opportunities

Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country you have applied for. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with local best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes. Privacy notice: https://www.pax8.com/en-us/terms/job-applicant-privacy-notice/