Remote SOC Analyst: Threat Hunting & Incident Response

The Bitcoin Street Journal; Kuala Lumpur; Remote; MYR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Tether is seeking an experienced SOC Analyst to monitor, triage and investigate security events in a fully remote, follow-the-sun setting. You will work across SIEM, EDR, SSE, and WAF platforms to detect, respond and document incidents with a strong emphasis on accuracy and collaboration.

The ideal candidate brings 3+ years in SOC with hands-on experience in security technologies, incident response, and threat hunting, plus excellent English communication. Remote international deployment offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field.
• 3+ years hands-on experience as a SOC Analyst in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of core security technologies (EDR, SSE, SIEM, WAF).
• Experience implementing, configuring, tuning platforms, or writing/detecting rules is a plus.
• Experience with incident response and threat hunting, familiar with MITRE ATT&CK.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, and analyze security alerts and events from SIEM, EDR, SSE, and WAF platforms.
• Investigate security incidents end to end from triage to containment and post-incident documentation.
• Determine scope, severity, and impact of security events and escalate incidents as needed.
• Execute response actions to isolate endpoints, block indicators, disable compromised accounts, and apply access controls.
• Ensure high-quality handovers across regions in a follow-the-sun model.
• Threat hunt across endpoint, network, and logs and map findings to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Provide feedback to tune SIEM/SOAR, EDR detections, and WAF rules to reduce noise.
• Enrich investigations with threat intelligence and indicators of compromise.
• Develop and maintain incident response playbooks and runbooks.
• Collaborate with IT, security engineering, and other teams to resolve incidents and support operations.
• Support vulnerability management and overall security posture improvement.

Skills

SOC Analyst

Incident response

Threat hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

EDR

SIEM

WAF

Zero Trust

English communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Cybersecurity/CS

Tools

EDR

SIEM

WAF

SSE

Job description

Tether is seeking an experienced SOC Analyst to monitor, triage and investigate security events in a fully remote, follow-the-sun setting. You will work across SIEM, EDR, SSE, and WAF platforms to detect, respond and document incidents with a strong emphasis on accuracy and collaboration.

The ideal candidate brings 3+ years in SOC with hands-on experience in security technologies, incident response, and threat hunting, plus excellent English communication. Remote international deployment offered.