- Location
- Malta
- Type
- Part-time
- Department
- Operations
Description
The Role
Our client is looking for a Junior Security Operations Analyst to join their Security Operations Team. You will work at the frontline of their managed security service, monitoring customer environments, investigating security alerts and helping ensure that genuine threats are identified and escalated quickly and accurately.
This is a hands-on opportunity for someone who wants to build a career in cybersecurity while gaining practical exposure to security tools, incident handling and security automation.
Key Responsibilities
- Triage & Threat Investigation: Monitor, correlate, and analyze multi-tenant security alerts. Determine true positives, classify severity using runbooks, and validate AI-generated verdicts and recommendations.
- Deep Enrichment & Scoping: Gather threat context across users, identities, devices, and mailboxes. Leverage KQL queries and Microsoft Defender Advanced Hunting to establish incident scope.
- Rapid Response & Containment: Execute pre-authorized containment actions under client-specific response models. Escalate complex incidents with complete evidence packages, timelines, and entity mappings.
- Client Communication & Onboarding: Partner with customer security teams via agreed escalation paths, maintain clear incident documentation, and validate ingestion and alert readiness for new client onboarding.
- Detection Engineering & Automation: Spot recurring false positives and alert patterns. Drive tuning initiatives and build workflow efficiencies using Logic Apps and AI-assisted triage models.
- Operational Excellence: Maintain auditable incident records, ensure connector and ingestion health, and contribute to post-incident reviews, runbooks, and SLA service reporting.
Skills
Cybersecurity