Security Operations Analyst (Cyber Defense Operations)

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Employment: Full-Time Contract
• ● Duration: 6 months, with potential extension
• ● Language: Fluent English required
• ● Industry: Cybersecurity / Cloud / Enterprise Security
• ● About the Opportunity
• ● Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a major international organization for a Security Operations Analyst to join a global Cybersecurity Operations team.
• ● You'll be part of a 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC) responsible for monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to cyber threats across enterprise, cloud, network, and endpoint environments.
• ● This is a hands-on security role focused on alert triage, threat investigation, log analysis, incident response, and security monitoring, working alongside cybersecurity specialists distributed across multiple regions.
• ● What You'll Do
• ● Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across SIEM, EDR, Microsoft security tools, and cloud platforms.
• ● Analyze host and network logs from Windows, Linux, databases, applications, web servers, firewalls, and NIDS/HIDS.
• ● Investigate suspicious activity, identify root causes, and determine appropriate remediation or escalation.
• ● Support incident response, remediation, and recovery activities.
• ● Work closely with Incident Response and other cybersecurity teams to manage security threats.
• ● Analyze network and security events using TCP/IP, syslog, firewall, and network monitoring data.
• ● Identify opportunities to improve detection quality and reduce false positives through tuning and optimization.
• ● Gather technical information from clients to improve security monitoring and detection.
• ● Prepare and present security reports, summaries, and technical findings.
• ● Contribute to SOC procedures, documentation, knowledge bases, and quality-control processes.