Junior SOC Analyst - Americas

Continental Industry; Taguig; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 960,000; Full time

Job summary

Continental in Metro Manila is seeking a Cybersecurity Consultant for our Security Operations Center to join a growing team. You will work on a range of security topics, handling events with Crowdstrike MDR and Microsoft XDR, investigating alerts, and contributing to threat intelligence and compliance investigations.

You will also support the continuous development of SoC capabilities, maintain SOC playbooks, and manage 3rd party teams to ensure effective detection and response.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or certifications in cybersecurity with 1–3 years of experience.
• Up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity tools and frameworks.
• Knowledge of automation and programming is desirable.
• Understanding of client/server/cloud infrastructure and application architecture.
• English language skills (written and spoken).
• IT service management knowledge (ITIL) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• SoC Operation: handle security events and alerts per playbooks, investigate endpoint tampering, participate in threat intelligence and compliance investigations.
• SoC Development: develop and maintain SOC capabilities and playbooks, oversee 3rd party teams for EDR/SIEM/KPI analysis.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to raise cybersecurity maturity and scale protections across the organization.

Skills

Cybersecurity

SIEM

Threat hunting

Incident response

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity certifications

Tools

Crowdstrike MDR

Microsoft XDR

Defender for Office

SIEM tooling

Job description

Company Description Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2022, Continental generated sales of €39.4 billion and currently employs around 200,000 people in 57 countries and markets.

The ContiTech group sector develops and manufactures, for example, cross-material, environmentally friendly and intelligent products and systems for the automotive industry, railway engineering, mining, agriculture and other key industries. Guided by the vision of “smart and sustainable solutions beyond rubber,” the group sector draws on its long-standing knowledge of the industry and materials to open up new business opportunities by combining various materials with electronic components and individual services.

Job Description

The Cybersecurity Consultant Security Operations Center works on a variety of topics within our growing team. If you feel ready to shape the future together with us, please expect involvement in the following exciting topics:

SoC Operation

• Work with a range of security tools such as Crowdstrike MDR and Microsoft XDR / Defender for Office to handle security events and alerts according to playbooks.
• Accountable to investigate endpoint / sensor tampering alerts and ensure repairs are completed by responsible teams.
• Get involved in Threat Intelligence and -handling activities including Threat hunting.
• Support compliance investigations.

SoC Development

• Supporting the continuous development of SoC capabilities, such as development and implementation of our agentic SOC strategy.
• Development and maintenance of SOC playbooks.
• Oversee and manage the 3rd party teams working in the SoC, to ensure detection and response for topics such as EDR, SIEM, KPI and Report analysis

Collaborate with internal stakeholders to develop decent cybersecurity maturity in our organization.

Scale Cybersecurity according to business needs. Protect our environment. Together.

Qualifications

• Relevant (best case academic) degree or comparable Cybersecurity certifications (e.g., GCIH, GSOC, GCFE, ...) and 1-3 years of equivalent experience,
• Excellent working knowledge of up-to-date cybersecurity tools and structures
• Knowldege of automation and programming would be desirable
• Knowledge of client, server and cloud infrastructure and mutual understanding of applications architecture
• English Language Skills (written and spoken)
• IT service management skills (ITIL) – would be desirable

Experience

• Cybersecurity related environments (focus SoC, Pentesting, Threat Hunting, Incident Response, Forensics) - mandatory
• project management
• global and multicultural company
• Security Monitoring via usage of a SIEM to analyse logs and alerts