Security Operations Analyst

THOMSON REUTERS CORP PTE LTD - PHILIPPINE BRANCH; Manila; Hybrid; PHP 520,000 - 780,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Career development

Mental Health Days/Headspace access

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer days

Job summary

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Security Operations Analyst to monitor, investigate, and respond to security events across enterprise systems, networks, cloud environments, and applications.

In this role you will work with the ISRM team to strengthen detection, incident-response workflows, and broader security operations capabilities in a 24/7 environment. A hybrid schedule with onsite work 2–3 days weekly is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 1–3 years in a SOC or similar cybersecurity operations role.
• Hands-on security investigations across OSes, networks, cloud, messaging, apps, and endpoints.
• Knowledge of networking, workstations, servers, and operating systems.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR, antivirus, forensic tools, firewalls, or cloud-security tools.
• Knowledge of attack techniques, defensive controls, and incident-response practices.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills; able to work end-to-end on security events.
• Ability to make timely decisions and work independently in a 24/7 security environment.
• Hybrid role with onsite work 2–3 days weekly; rotating shifts and on-call duties.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security events and respond to incidents across a global network.
• Detect, analyze, and triage alerts from IDS/SIEM platforms.
• Conduct end-to-end security investigations across OS, networks, cloud, messaging, apps, and endpoints.
• Perform malware analysis using open-source and vendor tools.
• Document activities in case-management systems and prepare incident briefings.
• Collaborate with ISRM to improve detection, alerting, and incident-response workflows.
• Create and maintain standard operating procedures for ongoing operations.

Skills

SOC experience

Security investigations

Analytical thinking

Decision making

Independent work

Threat detection

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SIEM

EDR

antivirus

forensic tools

firewalls

cloud-security tools

Job description

Security Operations Analyst

Job Description

Thomson Reuters is seeking aSecurity Operations Analystto help protect our global technology environment from evolving cybersecurity threats. As part of the Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) team, you will monitor, investigate, and respond to security events across enterprise systems, networks, cloud environments, and applications.

In this role, you will work alongside security professionals across the organization to identify potential threats, support incident response efforts, and strengthen detection capabilities. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by helping safeguard the systems and data that power trusted information for professionals around the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor enterprise security events and respond to potential incidents across a global network environment, serving as a secondary resource and assuming primary analyst responsibilities during team-member absences, escalations, or critical incidents.
• Detect, analyze, and triage alerts generated by security tools, including Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms.
• Conduct end-to-end security investigations across operating systems, networks, cloud environments, messaging platforms, applications, and endpoints.
• Perform malware analysis, including analysis of malicious code and obfuscated scripts, using open-source and vendor-provided tools.
• Document security monitoring, investigations, and incident-response activities using case-management and ticketing systems; prepare incident briefings, end-of-shift reports, and alerts related to intrusions or compromises.
• Partner with Information Security and Risk Management teams to improve detection, alerting, incident-response workflows, automation opportunities, and broader security operations capabilities.
• Create, maintain, and follow standard operating procedures and related documentation to support consistent operations, knowledge transfer, and continuous improvement across analyst shifts.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• One to three years of experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC), incident-response team, or comparable cybersecurity operations environment.
• Hands‑on experience conducting security investigations across operating systems, networks, cloud platforms, messaging systems, applications, and endpoints.
• Working knowledge of core technology concepts, including networking, workstations, servers, and operating systems.
• Experience working with security technologies such as Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), endpoint detection and response (EDR), antivirus, forensic tools, firewalls, or cloud-security tools.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity attack techniques, defensive controls, and incident-response practices.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to conduct end‑to‑end security investigations and apply sound judgment during security events.
• Ability to make timely decisions, solve problems, and work independently in a fast‑paced security operations environment.
• Ability to adapt to evolving threats, technologies, priorities, and operational requirements.
• Demonstrated commitment to continually learning and developing cybersecurity knowledge and skills.
• Work schedule and arrangement: Hybrid role with onsite work two to three days weekly; requires rotating shifts, weekend work, and on‑call availability in a 24/7 environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience with cloud cybersecurity tools and cloud-security investigations.
• Experience with Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms, security automation tools, scripting, or process automation to improve security monitoring, investigation, or incident‑response workflows.
• Experience performing malware analysis, including analysis of malicious code or obfuscated scripts.
• Experience using case-management or security ticketing platforms.
• Experience creating or maintaining security standard operating procedures and operational documentation.
• Relevant cybersecurity certifications or specialized cybersecurity training.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work‑life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real‑world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills‑first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award‑winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work‑life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro‑bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug‑free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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