Jr Security Operations Center Analyst

Long View Systems; Remote; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic IT provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a driven Security Operations Centre Analyst to join their team. This role entails monitoring security events, responding to incidents, and coordinating communication across teams. Ideal candidates should have at least 1 year of experience in cyber security, strong technical troubleshooting skills, and the SC-200 certification. The position offers competitive compensation and opportunities for career growth.

Benefits

Interesting work with access to latest technologies

Career growth opportunities

RSP plan

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional experience in incident detection and response, malware analysis, or cyber forensics.
• Experience with various IT service management tools including performance monitoring and ITSM solutions.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical and procedural issues.

Responsibilities

• Actively monitor, identify and validate security events from SIEM tools.
• Respond to business-impacting situations and engage required resources to remediate issues.
• Coordinate major security incidents and provide timely internal communications.

Skills

Incident detection and response

Malware analysis

Cyber forensics

Strong communication skills

Technical troubleshooting

Ability to work in urgency

Education

SC-200 certification

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Security Information Event Management platforms (SIEM)

Incident, problem, change and service requests (ITIL)

Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform)

Job description

Long View. A career that helps you get more out of life.

A Long View career helps you get more out of life. We don’t just say it, we prove it. Every day. We’re proud of our reputation as one of North America’s most dynamic IT providers — and we’re even prouder of our culture that allows our people to live life to its fullest. At Long View, we create an environment of collaboration and support, of innovation and enthusiasm, of inclusion and belonging. As a member of the Long View team, you’ll see how our company’s core pillars — Integrity, Competence, Value, and Fun — resonate through the workplace. And in a recent survey, 90% of Long View team members rated Long View as a good or great place to work!

Are you passionate about IT Security? Are you excited about growing your security career within an innovative company?

We are looking for a driven and self‑motivated Security Operations Centre Analyst for our IGS branch located in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto or Vancouver! You will act as the main point of security escalation between team members with Integrated Global Services, branches, clients and vendors. This role is on a 12‑month contract.

A Day in the Life:

• Actively participate in 24x7 operations of the Long View Security Operations Centre
• Monitor, identify and validate security events generated from Security Information Event Management (SIEM) tools
• Actively work in monitoring, event and incident management tools like Sentinel and ServiceNow
• Respond to critical business impacting situations and coordinate the efforts required to engage the proper resources to remediate the issue
• Coordinate major security incident situations and provide internal communications via email in a timely manor
• Provide general support for Security Information Event Management (SIEM) tool changes, tweaks, additions and updates within Sentinel and any additional tools leveraged by Long View
• Provide security guidance to team members across the organization how to best identify, contain and remediate security related incidents
• Understand complex issues across on‑premise, public and private cloud solutions and articulate the impact to higher tier team members
• Follow and establish process documentation for receipt of security alerts for monitored devices, acknowledge the receipt of the event, opening and/or updating service desk tickets to track the handling of events to resolution and closure, assignment of the ticket to the appropriate owner
• Work with cloud technologies like Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform
• Fulfill reporting requests that can be pulled from Long View tools

What You Bring:

• 1+ years of professional experience in incident detection and response, malware analysis, or cyber forensics
• SC-200 certification
• Experience working with MS Defender
• Extensive experienceevaluating, interpreting, and integrating relevant data sources for the purpose of mergingnetwork attack analyses with counterintelligence and law enforcement investigations
• Experience with various IT service management tools including performance monitoring and ITSM solutions
• Experience with Security Information Event Management platforms like Sentinel, Splunk and Sumo Logic
• Experience working with incident, problem, change and service requests that follow ITIL framework standards
• Experience provisioning new client services and working through customer onboarding tasks
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical and procedural issues
• Strong verbal and written communication which will allow you to communicate effectively to customers in non‑technical terms
• Ability to react quickly and professionally with a sense of urgency
• Ability and desire to work on an on‑call rotation for 24‑hour support

What Makes You Extra Awesome

• Intermediate level network and security certifications like the Security+, Network+, SSCP and/or CCNA Security
• SC-200, SC-900 or something of similar value

Why Work At Long View?

• Interesting work– Be part of exciting projects while accessing all the latest technologies
• Career growth– Permanent staff positions, paid training, career life planning, and relocation and travel opportunities
• RSP plan

$52,900 - $69,431 a year Expected salary range between $52,900 to $69,431 per annum.

Want to learn more about our culture and life at Long View? Check us out on LinkedIn and Instagram!

Long View’s mission of building the best and most sustainable team‑driven organization requires dedicated and ambitious people. Through employee resource groups, impactful and effective conversations, townhalls and various company‑wide training, including how to reduce unconscious bias, we are fostering an inclusive environment. We are committed to taking consistent, positive and lifelong action to be a diverse and equitable workplace because we know that the most effective companies are made up of people with varied identities, experiences and backgrounds.

Long View is an equal opportunity employer. If you have any accommodation requests for your interview or the role, please let your friendly Recruiter know.