Security Engineer Junior

As a junior Information Security Engineer, you have up till 2 years of experience in proactively and reactively monitoring and remedying security breaches.

About the Role

Usually, you are part of the SOC (security operations center); you investigate suspicious activities and take remediating actions.

Responsibilities

• You maintain Security Monitoring Tools to effectively secure and monitor the different systems.
• You perform penetration tests to find any flaws.
• You document, test and monitor any security breaches and assess their damage.
• As a security analyst, you analyze the alerts that are triggered by our detections.
• You will hunt for the required information in our SIEM.
• You will perform the appropriate analysis to find the root cause of the alert and decide if the alert can be closed or if escalation is needed.
• When in doubt or a more in-depth analysis is required, you will involve a senior security analyst that will guide you through the alert.
• The security analyst is a crucial and key role in our defense; a misjudgment of an alert can have serious consequences.
• To mitigate that risk of a single analyst misjudging an alert we value teamwork and encourage close collaboration.
• When you notice that a rule is firing false positive alerts you will report it and suggest optimizations to the internal threat development engineering team.
• In our daily stand-up we focus on the current threats for our environment and the different functions of the SOC are bringing their input in order to optimize our defense.

Qualifications

• Cyber defense is not a job, it is a passion and we expect you to share that passion.
• The threats are evolving on a daily basis so an active learning attitude is crucial.
• Our defense is a team play; you are asking for help, and you are helping other team members.
• Continuous improvement is key in our defense.
• An analytical mind with a touch of paranoia.
• A solid IT-knowledge of operating systems (Win, Linux, MacOS), databases, networks, firewalls, network security, ... is a good starting point.

Required Skills

• Experience with or knowledge about cyber security:
• Cyber attack techniques (Malware, phishing,...)
• Security tooling: EDR, IDS, SOAR, SIEM,...

Preferred Skills

• Analytical thinking
• Collaborating
• Customer orientation
• Eager to learn
• Effective communication
• IT Infrastructure
• Software development