Threat Analyst 2 (Romania)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Investigate and analyze logs and security-related events via Sophos tooling
• ▹Handle escalations from Tier I Threat Analysts, guiding and advising on investigations
• ▹Onboard and train new Threat Analysts
• ▹Create cases, track and follow up with clients through threat neutralization
• ▹Communicate and document findings to technical and executive customer audiences
• ▹Follow up with customers through issue resolution, providing detailed recommendations
• ▹Handle inbound customer requests via email, phone and ticket
• ▹Collaborate with core security and threat response teams
• ▹Actively research emerging indicators of compromise, exploits and vulnerabilities
• ▹Conduct threat hunting across the MDR customer base
• ▹Participate in Security Operations process improvement
• ▹Gather metrics on threat trends, intelligence analysis and situational awareness for reporting

Requirements

• ▹Willingness to work weekends and holidays, as the MDR service runs 24x7x365
• ▹2+ years of experience in a SOC environment or IT security team
• ▹Endpoint and network security experience: IDS, IPS, EDR, ATP, malware defenses and monitoring
• ▹Threat hunting experience
• ▹Experience administering and supporting Windows OS (workstations and servers)

Soft skills

About the company

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services, combining machine learning, automation and real-time threat intelligence with the expertise of Sophos X-Ops for 24/7 threat monitoring, detection and response.