Cloud Security Analyst

SUMMARY:
An exciting opportunity to be part of a well-known organization has opened up in Cape Town and is seeking the expertise of a Cloud Security Analyst to actively monitor the cloud traffic of clients and investigate suspicious user behavior, anomalies and potential threats (incidents). You will further resolve / action such incidents, where required. Engage with clients in Europe and South Africa on a daily basis and provide them with reports and advice. Ensure that the delivery of the solution/service is aligned with the business requirement specification.

POSITION INFO:
Education and Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Communication Technology
• Microsoft Certified: Azure fundamentals
• Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals
• Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst SC-200
• Work experience with MS Azure cloud and Sentinel or other SIEM platform
• Work experience with Cyber SOC monitoring
• Command of the software coding languages: Java, C++
• Command of Kusto Query Language (KQL) is an advantage
• Office environment
• Good physical health / able to sit or stand for long periods of time
• Flexible approach to working hours with a willingness and ability to respond to needs outside
• ‘Office hours’ during the early morning, evenings and weekends where necessary
• Speak, read and write in English
• Multilingual advantageous

• You are who you are and bring personality on board
• You love to learn and make impact, both career-wise and personally
• You are not made for 9 to 5 jobs
• You have excellent verbal and writing skills in English
• You embrace lifelong learning and aren’t shy of learning new things.
• You have some experience with either object oriented programming and or Microsoft products
• You love to puzzle and dare to make mistakes
• You are familiar with Scrum or are open to learn how to deliver following such an approach
• Able to effectively speak with Senior people
• Very solid work ethic
• Energetic and flexible
• Individuals who are employed must appreciate, at all times, that they are ambassadors of the organization, that their actions, conduct and statements must be in the best interests of the organization and that they should be appropriately dressed and presentable at all times
• Honesty, Integrity and confidentiality
• Loyalty to the company and its customers
• Mutual respect for diversity and each other/cultural awareness
• Perform additional ad hoc duties outside of the basic job specification that the company believes
• to be reasonably appropriate

• Performing risk and threat management on alerts and events generated in Azure Sentinel
• Detecting and correlating events in Azure Sentinel to create incidents and perform triage
• To automate and orchestrate automated responses in Azure Playbooks
• Assist with continuous development of the Cloud SOC platform on Azure Sentinel
• Assist in presales cycles helping sales team to solution sell new opportunities
• Assist in product development of the Cloud SOC platform
• Perform risk assessments for threats and risks for clients
• Continuously learn and attend online webinars and events to stay up to date with the latest trends

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