Key Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Proactively monitoring and providing near-real-time cybersecurity status and reports to enable timely decision-making, monitor and investigate alerts sent to the SOC.
• Maintain situational awareness of emerging cyber trends by reviewing open-source reports for recent vulnerabilities, malware, and other threats that have the potential to impact the organization.
• Operate within direction to investigate and escalate in accordance with protocols and contractual SLAs as well as procedures.
• Triage and validate security alerts and escalate incidents, as required.
• Troubleshoot system misconfigurations and recommend best practices for remediation
• Take initiative in evaluating, proposing, and deploying various detection capabilities.
• Integrate and share information with other analysts and other teams.
• Deliver status reports, briefings, recommendations, and findings to management as required.
• Staying up to date with current security vulnerabilities, attacks, and countermeasures.
• Answer incoming calls and monitor various e-mail accounts and act according to SOC procedures and processes.

Key Skills/Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with some relevant working experience and specialized training.
• Ideally 1+ year of previous technical security-related experience is ideal, although Recent Graduates are also encouraged to apply.
• Basic understanding of cyber landscape and typical threat vectors.
• Knowledge of Network environment concepts including TCP/IP stack (OSI Model), DNS, DHCP, firewalls, VPN, NAC, IDS/IPS
• Knowledge of Web Security technologies including OWASP.
• Ability to adjust to shift rotational schedule.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, fluent in English.
• Knowledge of various security methodologies and processes, and technical security solutions (firewall, proxy, intrusion detection systems).
• Strong work ethic.
• Detailed oriented with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize tasks.
• Strong organizational skills.

To apply for this vacancy, please send your CV, along with any covering letter to [email protected] quoting the above job title. Please note that due to the high volumes of applications received only shortlisted applicants will be responded to. By sending us your CV you are giving CareerFinders your consent to be contacted for this and any other suitable vacancies that we believe match your skills and experience. To view our privacy policy, please click www.careerfinders.com.cy/privacy-policy.