Senior SOC Analyst

CPX; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CPX is seeking a Senior Analyst for SOC Monitoring to lead security monitoring efforts, analyze diverse log sources, respond to incidents, and enhance the security operations program. You will work across CPX/Client technology, coordinating with stakeholders and improving defensive capabilities.

The role requires 6–8 years of security experience, strong analytical skills, and expertise with SIEMs, EDRs, and log analysis. A cross-functional, high-growth security team environment awaits.

Qualifications

• Min 6-8 yrs. experience in security monitoring and SOC operations.
• Experience analyzing host-based and network-based security logs.
• Familiar with SIEMs (Splunk) and EDR tools; log correlation and incident handling.

Responsibilities

• Validate incidents escalated by Tier 1 SOC Analysts.
• Conduct threat analysis and correlate data across diverse datasets.
• Provide recommendations for incident handling and monitoring improvements.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to validate network alerts and response actions.
• Analyze log files and network traffic to identify attackers and anomalies.
• Maintain and tune SIEM content, reports, and dashboards.

Skills

Trend analysis

Threat detection

Incident response

Security governance

Analytical thinking

Education

BS or MS in Information Security / CS / EE

Tools

Wireshark

ELK

Rekall

Ghidra

FlareVM

Splunk

EDR solutions

Job description

Position Title - Senior Analyst - SOC Monitoring

Certifications (Technical & Non-Technical) - Related security certifications (i.e. CCNA, Network+, Security+, CISSP, CISM, GICSP, GCIH, GCIA, GRID)

• Min 6-8 yrs. experience one or more of the following:
• Skilled in identifying trends and patterns from analyzing host-based, network-based security logs
• Used network investigation tools such as Wireshark, and any other open-source tools such as ELK, Rekall, Ghidra, FlareVM, to analyze log sources/memory/malware to understand intrusion vectors and attacker tactics, techniques and procedures
• Provide support and guidance to improve security requirements for the security operations
• Experience with Windows/Linux/Unix, understanding of NIDS/HIDS
• Monitoring of SIEM alerts with tools such as Splunk and EDR solutions

Education

BS or MS in Information Security / Computer Science / Electrical Engineering or related field

The Security Operations Centre team at CPX is a cross-functional Operations/ Engineering team involved at all phases of our application and service release lifecycle that embraces the SecOps communication, collaboration, and integration method. The Senior Security Analyst is responsible for leading security monitoring efforts, analyzing various log sources, responding to security incidents, and enhancing the overall security operations program within elements of CPX/Client technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate the Incidents escalated by Tier 1 SOC Security Analysts.
• Perform second levrrency of threat condition and determine which security issues may have an impact on the organization services and information's.
• Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across wide variety data sets (e.g., indications and warnings).
• Provide recommendations foel of incident handling, and security monitoring and validation of physical security
• Identify weaknesses in software, hardware, and networks.
• Analyze, and communicate with stakeholders, the threats associated with every incident.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to validate network alerts.
• Conduct analysis of log files, evidence, and other information in order to determine best methods for identifying attackers.
• Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources.
• Monitor external data sources (e.g., Threat Intelligent sources, Dubai AE-CERT Teams, etc.) to maintain cur SIEM content development, tuning, reports and dashboards.

Characteristics

• Excellent communication skills: written, verbal, and interpersonal.
• Strong team player with a customer service orientation, ability to forge relationships at all levels of the company and across diverse cultures.
• Ethical, honest, fair, and with high integrity.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills required.
• Exhibits ownership of projects and assigned tasks.
• Has an in-depth understanding of the incident response process, analysis, alerts, rules, etc.
• Highly analytical, strong problem-solving skills, and ability to thrive in an energetic, fast paced, high growth security team environment.
• Must be able to pass all security clearances
• Quickly owns and handles tasks accurately, highly dependable, and self-motivated.
• Takes proper care and administration to configure, implement, and maintain DLP technologies.