Monitoring & Alert Handling
Continuously monitor security alerts and events from SIEM tools and security platforms.
Identify and categorize suspicious activities, malware alerts, phishing attempts, and intrusion attempts.
Assist in triaging and prioritizing security alerts based on severity levels.
Investigation & Analysis
Perform initial investigation on security events to determine potential threats or false positives.
Gather and analyze logs from various sources (firewalls, endpoint security, network devices, applications).
Document incident findings and escalate critical alerts to senior analysts or Incident Response team.
Incident Response Support
Assist in containment, mitigation, and recovery steps under guidance of senior SOC members.
Participate in incident handling processes and follow defined playbooks/runbooks.
Support in forensic evidence collection when required.
Security Reporting & Documentation
Maintain detailed incident tickets with investigation notes and actions taken.
Prepare periodic reports on alerts, incident trends, and security posture improvements.
Continuous Improvement
Stay updated with emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and security trends.
Contribute to refining SOC processes, SOPs, and threat detection mechanisms.
Skills Required
- Experience monitoring security alerts and events from SIEM tools
- Ability to identify and categorize suspicious activity, malware, phishing, and intrusions
- Skill in triaging and prioritizing security alerts based on severity
- Experience performing initial investigations and analyzing logs from firewalls, endpoints, network devices, and applications
- Experience documenting incident findings and escalating critical alerts
- Familiarity with incident response playbooks/runbooks and following defined incident handling processes
- Ability to assist in containment, mitigation, and recovery under senior guidance
- Support forensic evidence collection when required
- Maintain detailed incident tickets and prepare periodic reports on alerts and trends
- Willingness to stay updated on emerging threats and contribute to SOC process improvements
What We Do
NextHire Consulting is an AI-driven recruiting platform that streamlines the hiring process for companies. By leveraging AI agents for sourcing, screening, and interviewing, the platform enables teams to focus on pre-qualified finalists. It provides data-driven insights into candidate soft skills and behavioral styles, aiming to disrupt traditional recruitment models with efficient, automated, and science-based talent acquisition solutions for businesses of all sizes.
