Junior SOC Analyst – Cybersecurity

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Ascension Executive Recruitment

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11 - 50 employees

🎯 Recruiter

Recruitment • Human Resources • Executive Search

Ascension Executive Recruitment is a specialist brand placing senior candidates across a range of industries. The company focuses on recruiting for roles such as C-Suite, Director, Head of Function, and Senior Management positions. With a global reach in the Irish and international markets, Ascension has experience in handling confidential campaigns and matching clients with suitable candidates. Their thorough screening and interview process ensures that only qualified candidates are presented to clients, emphasizing quality, transparency, and commitment to equal opportunity.

📋 Description

• Continuously monitor, triage, and analyze real-time security alerts and log data across disparate platforms. • Serve as the critical operational hinge and escalation pathway between Tier 1/2 SOC analysts and the Incident Response (IR) team. • Execute initial deep-dive log analysis and technical root-cause investigations to reconstruct threat timelines. • Perform proactive behavioral and pattern analysis on historical network and host logs to identify coverage gaps. • Review and update SOC incident response playbooks, internal workflows, and defensive tool tracking mechanisms.

🎯 Requirements

• High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required. • Practical experience building custom queries or dashboards within Enterprise SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk SPL, Microsoft Sentinel KQL) and manipulating EDR tools for host isolation. • Core fundamental networking and systems certifications, such as CompTIA Security+, Network+, or vendor-specific certifications like Splunk Certified User. • Demonstrated lab experience (e.g., HTB, TryHackMe, blue-team range exercises) simulating initial access, persistence, and lateral movement techniques to validate defensive posture.

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off (PTO) • Various health insurance options & wellness plans • Retirement benefits including employer match plans • Long-term & short-term disability • Employee assistance programs (EAP) • Parental leave & adoption assistance • Tuition reimbursement • Ways to give back to your community