Security Operations Analyst
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HuntressCybersecurity
Remote Australia, Perth time (AWST), Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pmFull-TimeJunior
Salary$110,000 to $140,000 AUD base plus bonus and equity
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Job Details
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience in SOC, Incident Response, Managed Detection and Response, or Digital Forensics roles.
- Required Skills
- Linux
Requirements
- Have 2+ years of experience in SOC, Incident Response, Managed Detection and Response, or Digital Forensics roles.
- Demonstrate experience with at least one of Windows, Linux, or macOS, including attack surfaces, malware analysis, and basic threat actor tools and techniques.
- Understand system administration skills and how threat actors abuse them, including Active Directory, PowerShell, Group Policy, and local account creation.
- Be familiar with MITRE ATT&CK techniques and tactics, including credential dumping, lateral movement, persistence mechanisms, and exfiltration techniques.
- Have working knowledge of networking concepts, including common ports and protocols, NAT, public and private IP addresses, and VLANs.
- Have an interest in forensics and analyzing logs, processes, and artifacts to understand intrusions.
- Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, and simplify technical findings for diverse audiences.
- Use AI in day-to-day security analysis, applying sound judgment and validating its output before acting.
Responsibilities
- Triage, investigate, respond to, and remediate alerts generated by the Huntress platform.
- Review EDR/SIEM telemetry, log sources, and forensic artifacts to determine attack root causes where possible and provide remediation.
- Perform dynamic malware analysis to extract indicators of compromise or determine a file’s malicious intent.
- Craft and tune detection signals to address emerging threats and improve queue hygiene.
- Investigate activity in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace and provide remediation advice for compromised tenants.
- Use real-world intrusion data and AI tools to support research and routine analysis, validating outputs.
- Assist the SOC Support team with customer and partner escalations on threat-related and SOC-relevant questions.
- Partner with Product and Engineering to evolve Human Led Agentic workflows.
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