Security Operations Analyst

🔥 1 hour ago

🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

💵 $110k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🛡️ Security Operations

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

Where this job comes from

Posted on Huntress's careers page, not through a job board

First seen by Remote Rocketship 1 hour ago

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Huntress

201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Healthcare • Manufacturing

Huntress is a cybersecurity firm that provides managed detection, investigation, and response solutions to protect endpoints, identities, and email environments. It offers a platform with managed EDR, security awareness training, ITDR for Microsoft 365, and SIEM solutions, all supported by a 24/7 Security Operations Center. Huntress is designed to secure small and medium-sized businesses against cyber threats. Their services help organizations across industries, ensuring robust protection and compliance, especially in environments like education, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and government.

📋 Description

• 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 and provide remediation. • Perform dynamic malware analysis to extract indicators of compromise or determine 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. • Develop skills through real-world intrusion data, paid training, and responsible use of AI tools for research and routine analysis. • Support customer success by assisting with customer and partner escalations involving threat-related and SOC-relevant questions. • Partner with Product and Engineering to evolve Human Led Agentic workflows. • Support sales and collaborate with Product on Huntress’ MDR service and platform. • Contribute across Incident Response, Security Operations, Threat Hunting, and Detection Engineering. • Share work through blogs, conference talks, webinars, and research publications.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in SOC, Incident Response, Managed Detection and Response, or Digital Forensics roles. • Demonstrated experience with at least one of Windows, Linux, or macOS, including attack surfaces, malware analysis, and basic threat actor tools and techniques. • Understanding of common system administration skills and how threat actors abuse them, including Active Directory, PowerShell, Group Policy, and local account creation. • Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK techniques and tactics, including credential dumping, lateral movement, persistence mechanisms, and exfiltration techniques. • Working knowledge of core networking concepts, including common ports and protocols, NAT, public and private IP addresses, and VLANs. • Passion for forensics and experience digging into logs, processes, and artifacts to understand intrusions. • Clear written and verbal communication skills, ability to simplify complex technical findings for diverse audiences, and self-guided learning. • Ability to use AI in day-to-day security analysis, validate its output, and apply sound judgment. • Ability to work Perth time (AWST), Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, or equivalent local hours elsewhere in Australia.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • At least one annual trip to the US for Summer Summit, with additional local events in Australia! • New starter home office set up reimbursement ($800 AUD) • 12 weeks paid parental leave for both primary and secondary carers • Monthly digital allowance for personal phone and internet costs ($185 AUD) • Monthly home office tech stipend to upgrade or replace equipment ($40 AUD) • Subsidised private health insurance through our preferred provider • Stock options for all full-time employees • Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth

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