IT Security Analyst - India

Appen Limited; Philippines; Remote; PHP 540,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Appen Limited is seeking an IT Security Analyst to protect and improve our security controls. You will own security operations across Defender XDR, lead incident response, and drive IAM, PAM, and patch management while maintaining ISO 27001 documentation.

The role focuses on monitoring Defender XDR and Sentinel, leading security incidents end-to-end, and ensuring audit-ready ISMS evidence. Strong scripting (PowerShell/Python) and stakeholder communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years' experience in a security operations or security analyst role.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, Sentinel and Entra ID.
• Experience leading security incidents and producing incident reports.
• Working knowledge of ISO 27001 controls and audit processes.
• Experience with IAM, access reviews, PAM and patch management.
• Proficiency with KQL and PowerShell or Python.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• SOC & Alert Management: Monitor, triage and resolve alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR and Sentinel; tune detections to reduce false positives and improve response times.
• Incident Response: Lead incidents end-to-end (containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned); maintain the Incident Response Plan and playbooks.
• ISO 27001: Maintain ISMS policies, risk register and audit evidence; support internal and external audits and close findings.
• IAM & Access Reviews: Administer Entra ID (Conditional Access, MFA); run quarterly user and privileged access reviews and enforce least privilege.
• PAM: Operate the Privileged Access Management solution, including PIM and break-glass accounts.
• Patch & Vulnerability Management: Own vulnerability remediation and monthly patch cycles; report compliance against SLAs.
• Cost Optimisation: Manage security licences and Sentinel log ingestion to optimise cost without reducing coverage.

Skills

Microsoft Defender XDR

Sentinel

Entra ID

Incident response

ISO 27001

IAM

PAM

KQL

PowerShell

Python

Communication skills

Job description

About the Role

The IT Security Analyst protects the organization's information assets by operating and improving our security controls. The role owns security operations across Microsoft Defender, leads incident response, maintains ISO 2701O documentation, and drives identity, access and patch management.

Your Impact

• SOC & Alert Management: Monitor, triage and resolve alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR and Sentinel; tune detections to reduce false positives and improve response times.
• Incident Response: Lead incidents end-to-end (containment, eradication, recovery, lessons
  learned); maintain the Incident Response Plan and playbooks.
• ISO 27001: Maintain ISMS policies, risk register and audit evidence; support internal and
  external audits and close findings.
• IAM & Access Reviews: Administer Entra ID (Conditional Access, MFA); run quarterly user and
  privileged access reviews and enforce least privilege.
• PAM: Operate the Privileged Access Management solution, including PIM and break-glass
  accounts.
• Patch & Vulnerability Management: Own vulnerability remediation and monthly patch cycles;
  report compliance against SLAs.
• Cost Optimisation: Manage security licences and Sentinel log ingestion to optimise cost
  without reducing coverage.

What You Bring

• 1-3 years' experience in a security operations or security analyst role.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, Sentinel and Entra ID.
• Experience leading security incidents and producing incident reports.
• Working knowledge of ISO 2701O controls and audit processes.
• Experience with IAM, access reviews, PAM and patch management.
• Proficiency with KQL and PowerShell or Python.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Compensation

India: ₹5L-9L per year (CTC)

Philippines: ₱45k-60k per month (₱540k-720k per year)

Why You'll Love Working Here

At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.

You’ll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You’ll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.

About Appen

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.