IT Security Analyst

**IT Security Analyst**

Permanent
Cape Town based. Remote working is an option.
Salary plus benefits.

BCN, a UK based company with operations in Cape Town, is looking for an L1 IT/Cyber Security Analyst to join 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 will 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

**Skills & Experience**
- Broad knowledge of Security technologies and products
- Product Certifications in SIEM, Security Analytics, AV, Log Management
- A+, S+, N+, Linux +
- ITIL Proven skills in a SOC functional unit
- Must have the ability to understand large, complex systems and be able to focus on specific details or subsystems, their vulnerabilities, and linkages.
- Experience dealing with malware, attack vectors and the ability to perform pattern analysis.
- Requires basic knowledge in IT operations with a focus on governance, risk, and compliance.

**Desired Certifications**
- 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 BCN and how your experience matches with our needs. Please include your salary requirements.

BCN is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

**Salary**: From R35,000.00 per month

**Experience**:

- SOC Analyst: 1 year (required)
- Microsoft Sentinel & Microsoft Defender Ninja: 2 years (preferred)

Shift availability:

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