Our well established Finance client is looking for a Senior IT Security Specialist to join their Basel based team in a permanent role.

Your Role:

As Senior Cyber Security Analyst you are a hands-on technical leader on a team dedicated to detecting and responding to cyber security incidents. You protect the organization by actively monitoring and investigating security alerts. You are responsible for continuously improving detection capabilities and threat hunting activities, as well as being involved in major incident analysis. You play a key role in advancing the detection and response maturity by developing new detection content, refining existing detection rules and contributing to the design and implementation of security tools, including Endpoint Detection and Response solutions.

Your Responsibilities:

• Monitor, triage and investigate security alerts generated by the SIEM and other security tools
• Develop, implement and maintain SIEM detection rules to improve alert quality
• Improve and maintain SOC tooling, integrations and workflows to enhance SOC efficiency
• Perform proactive threat hunting activities leveraging available threat intelligence
• Collaborate with IT and other stakeholders to support remediation and security improvements
• Use cyber threat intelligence to enrich alerts and investigations
• Respond to and coordinate the handling of security incidents in accordance with SOC procedures

Your Profile:

• Higher education (university / FH) in computer science or information security area
• At least 10 years of practical experience in the field of information security
• A minimum of 5 years of experience with SOC
• Strong experience on EDR solutions
• Advanced knowledge of SIEM, preferably Splunk
• Understanding of offensive security techniques
• Ability to work with various stakeholder
• Hands-on mentality
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Fluency in English