SOC Incident Responder/soc Analyst

**About the Role**:
As a SOC Analyst in The Support Force, you will be joining our team of security experts to help defend our clients and proactively identify and remediate threats within their environments. You will enhance the efficiency of our SOC by advancing our automation and alerting capabilities, and supporting our clients during security incidents.

**What you’ll be doing**:
Triage and Investigation of Security Alerts and Incidents from Microsoft Sentinel

Experienced in carrying out Incident Response for customers, and able to train the SOC team on handling IR situations

Utilising Threat Intelligence to carry out proactive threat hunting through client environments

Working with our clients to advise on containment, eradication, and recovery actions during Incident Response

Escalation for security incidents and crisis events

Leading innovation and ideas for the continual improvement of the SOC

Building threat intelligence use cases and requirements to improve the efficiency of the SOC

Providing use cases to the SOAR Automation team to assist our automated incident triaging and response capabilities

Work with customers to threat model within the context of their environment

Improve the efficiency of our platform-centric SOC by driving alert tuning opportunities, key metrics gathering, and development of optimised Standard Operating Procedures

**Desirable Certs**:
SC-200 - Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

AZ-500 - Microsoft Azure Security Technologies

MS-500 - Microsoft 365 Security Administration

L-400 - Microsoft Sentinel & Microsoft Defender Ninja Training

Describe in your cover letter why you are interested in working with The Support Force and how your experience matches with our needs. Please include your salary requirements. The Support Force is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

**Salary**: R20,000.00 - R30,000.00 per month

**Experience**:

- SOC Analyst: 3 years (required)
- Microsoft Sentinel & Microsoft Defender Ninja: 2 years (required)

Shift availability:

- Day Shift (preferred)
- Night Shift (preferred)
- Overnight Shift (preferred)