Senior Analyst (working from home)

Senior IT Security Analyst working and collaborating from home
Introduction
Are you passionate about IT security?
Do you eat, breathe and dream about it?
Do you get a thrill out of putting systems in place and watching the bad guys squirm?
Then please step inside…
 
Duties & Responsibilities
  • Thought leadership within the SOC
  • Engagement in new SOC builds
    • Continuous development of the SOC offering (SIEM, MDR/XDR and associated services)
    • Identifying tools, enhancements and automation
    • Implementation
  • Senior analysis (as supporting role)
    • Provide guidance and support to existing SOC analysts
  • Incident response lead (though not frequent)
    • Owning the incident response process for serious incidents (CSIRT)
    • Coordinating incident response
    • Providing direction on data gathering
    • Providing direction on response activities
    • Engaging in CSIRT sessions
    • Providing CSIRT reports
This is a senior role.  This is not an AA position.
If you’re black you can apply
If you’re white you can apply
If you’re purple then you’re an alien – please apply
So what does it take?
Knowledge and Attributes
  • A strong knowledge of IT
    • Servers
    • Enterprise
    • Networking
  • A strong knowledge of IT security
    • Security tools: AD, Firewalls, AV/EPP/EDR, Vulnerability scanning/management etc.
    • SIEM (more is better)
    • SOAR (very advantageous)
    • OSINT experience
    • Offensive security tools (very advantageous)
    • Incident response experience
  • Supplemental skills
    • Regex
    • Scripting
  • 5 years of relevant experience
  • Good communication skills
  • Intelligence (if you like solving puzzles this is probably for you)
  • A get-it-done attitude
 
Qualifications
Any of the following will get the ball rolling (the more the merrier):
  • Matric (Diploma, Degree or IT Security cert even better)
  • CISSP
  • OSCP
  • CEH
  • Other? Let us know why you think you have the right certs
Working environment
  •  Your own home
Working environment (Seriously)
If you have:
  • A quiet, secure place from which to work
  • A suitable desk and chair
  • Access to standard electricity (Eskom or better – we’ll even provide an inverter!)
  • Access to good Internet connectivity (fibre preferable)
Then we don’t care where you work from
Package & Remuneration
To be discussed
 
Interested?
We’re looking for capable, intelligent people.  If you think you meet these requirements, please apply.