SOC Analyst

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Hiring Remotely in Nigeria
Remote
Junior
Information Technology • Software
The Role
Monitor and triage security alerts from SIEM, EDR, and cloud sources; investigate suspicious endpoint, identity, and cloud activity; document findings; escalate incidents to Tier 2/IR; follow and improve playbooks; communicate clearly with clients and internal teams.
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Description

We’re looking for a Tier 1 SOC Analyst to join our team and handle initial triage, monitoring, and investigation of security alerts across cloud and endpoint environments.

This is a client-facing role requiring strong English, excellent verbal communication skills, and the ability to clearly communicate findings and escalations. The position is intended for candidates with at least 1 year of hands-on SOC / Security Operations experience.

The role is based on morning shifts aligned with US working hours, 08:00–17:00 US time.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor security alerts from SIEM, EDR, and cloud platforms
  • Perform initial triage and classification of alerts as true or false positives
  • Investigate suspicious activities across endpoints, identities, and cloud environments
  • Escalate confirmed incidents to Tier 2 / Incident Response teams with proper context
  • Analyze logs from multiple sources, including CloudTrail, Azure Activity Logs, OS logs, and other relevant security data sources
  • Document findings clearly in tickets and investigation reports
  • Follow existing playbooks and contribute to improving detection logic over time
  • Communicate clearly with internal teams and clients regarding alerts, findings, and escalations
Requirements
  • 1+ years of experience in SOC / Security Operations
  • Hands-on experience with EDR tools such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Familiarity with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, or similar
  • Understanding of networking basics, including IP, DNS, HTTP/S, ports, and related concepts
  • Basic knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems
  • Ability to analyze logs and identify suspicious behavior
  • Fluent English, both written and spoken — mandatory
  • Excellent verbal communication skills, especially in client-facing situations

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Knowledge of GCP / Google Cloud Platform — significant advantage
  • Ability to investigate cloud activity, including IAM, API calls, and resource changes
  • Understanding of identity-based attacks, such as token abuse and privilege escalation
  • Experience with scripting in Python or Bash

Skills Required

  • 1+ years of experience in SOC / Security Operations
  • Hands-on experience with EDR tools such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Familiarity with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, or similar
  • Understanding of networking basics, including IP, DNS, HTTP/S, ports
  • Basic knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems
  • Ability to analyze logs and identify suspicious behavior
  • Fluent English, both written and spoken
  • Excellent verbal communication skills, especially in client-facing situations
  • Work morning shifts aligned with US working hours (08:00-17:00 US time)
  • Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Knowledge of GCP / Google Cloud Platform
  • Ability to investigate cloud activity, including IAM, API calls, and resource changes
  • Understanding of identity-based attacks, such as token abuse and privilege escalation
  • Experience with scripting in Python or Bash
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The Company
HQ: Petaling Jaya
399 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Commit is a global tech services company with offices in Israel, US, Canada, UK, and Europe. The company was founded in 2005 and has over 700 multi-disciplinary innovation experts who serve a broad range of companies, from small startups to large enterprises in multiple business sectors. Commit specializes in advanced technologies and applications with dedicated practices in Cloud, GenAI, Software, IoT, Big Data, Cyber, Collaboration, Data center migration projects, and more. Commit offers innovative, end-to-end technology solutions by developing custom software and IoT platforms for clients looking to build their next-gen products within the modern ICT world. Commit’s complete and comprehensive engineering powerhouse of resources, and proprietary Flexible R&D methodology helps transform its clients’ technology visions into high-quality products while reducing costs and improving time-to-market.

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