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Security Operations Analyst (L1)

Europe · Remote · Security

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SIEMPythonLinuxNetworkingCybersecurityIncident Response
We are inviting you, a highly motivated and results-oriented Security Operations Analyst to join our team on a full-time basis. Our team has unique expertise in research, analysis, and product development. By relying on technical insights and a data-driven approach, we create disruptive future-defining innovations of the fin-tech industry that remain our basis for success. Responsibilities - Monitor prioritized alert queues and validate whether alerts indicate real risk - Enrich cases and correlate relevant endpoint, identity, authentication, network, service, asset, user, timeline, and business context - Perform initial investigations, classify alerts, assess preliminary severity and scope, and document the evidence and reasoning in the case-management system - Close false positives and execute approved low-risk actions only through defined runbooks - Escalate suspected incidents, privileged-account issues, and high-impact or production-impact cases to L2, the manager, or Incident Response - Maintain clear handover notes and support improvements to case quality and runbooks Requirements - At least 1+ year hands-on experience with security alert triage through work, an internship, or a practical lab, including use of at least one SIEM and exposure to EDR or XDR and case-management workflows - Ability to build basic searches or queries, filter security events, and correlate related activity across more than one data source (Experience with basic SIEM query languages such as KQL, EQL) - Ability to interpret common endpoint, identity, authentication, network, DNS, HTTP, and service or cloud audit telemetry at an initial-investigation level - Working fundamentals of Windows and Linux, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, authentication, access control, and common attack patterns such as phishing, credential abuse, malware execution, and suspicious account activity - Ability to distinguish true positives, false positives, and benign activity; assign a preliminary severity; identify affected users or assets; and recognize when scope or impact is uncertain - Basic use of indicators of compromise, reputation sources, and threat-intelligence context, with awareness of the MITRE ATT&CK framework - Ability to create a concise investigation timeline and document evidence, actions, conclusions, and handover or escalation notes in a case-management system - Ability to follow approved runbooks, perform only authorized low-risk actions, recognize the limits of L1 authority, and escalate suspected incidents correctly Will be a plus - Simple Python or PowerShell scripts for investigation and enrichment - Exposure to cloud, email-security, or SaaS audit logs and common phishing-investigation workflows - Practical cybersecurity labs or an entry-level certification such as Security+ or CySA+ - Experience with MacOS We offer - 20 paid vacation days per year - 10 paid sick leave days per year - Public holidays as per the company's approved Public holiday list - Medical budget - Opportunity to work remotely - Professional education budget - Language learning budget - Wellness budget (gym membership, sports gear and related expenses)