Senior SOC Analyst - Remote Incident Response & Threat Hunt

Protera; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical benefits

Shift allowances

On-call allowance

Health and wellness allowances

Learning and Development Allowances

Certification bounty bonus

Job summary

Protera Technologies is seeking a Senior SOC Analyst to lead incident response, threat hunting, and digital forensics in a fast-paced, remote environment. The role focuses on coordinating investigations, mentoring junior analysts, and leveraging SIEM/EDR tooling to protect Protera and its clients.

The ideal candidate will drive proactive security monitoring, threat detection, and remediation across SAP-centric client environments, while maintaining clear client communications and high

Qualifications

• Extensive experience reviewing and analysing log data from various network and security devices.
• Familiar with packet capture, network analysis, and OS fingerprinting.
• Strong familiarity with Windows and Linux operating systems, including command-line operations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Willingness to work in shift rotations or on-call schedules as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate Incident Response investigations for Protera and its customers.
• Perform detailed analysis of logs and alerts to differentiate true security incidents from benign events.
• Discover and correlate relationships between seemingly unrelated information to identify threats.
• Conduct packet analysis of network traffic to obtain corroborating evidence for investigations.
• Lead incident response calls with internal teams and clients, ensuring clear communication, updates, and coordinated remediation actions.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior analysts on best practices, investigations, and tool usage.
• Coordinate with internal teams and clients to provide effective incident handling, containment, and remediation support.
• Continuously improve incident response and security operations procedures.
• Handle escalated security incidents tools like, SIEM, EDR, ITSM, email, phone, or in-person interactions.
• Manage security incidents through resolution and consult with leadership when required.
• Tune, troubleshoot, and optimize SIEM, EDR, NDR, and other security monitoring systems.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting and vulnerability assessments to identify emerging risks.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients during critical security incidents, providing status updates, guidance, and recommendations.
• Document all incident response actions and client communications to ensure audit readiness and post-incident reporting.

Skills

Log analysis

Incident response

Threat hunting

Digital forensics

Communication

Networking

Windows

Linux

CLI

Scripting (Python)

Tools

FTK

Redline

EDR tools

SIEM platforms

Job description

Protera Technologies is seeking a Senior SOC Analyst to lead incident response, threat hunting, and digital forensics in a fast-paced, remote environment. The role focuses on coordinating investigations, mentoring junior analysts, and leveraging SIEM/EDR tooling to protect Protera and its clients.

The ideal candidate will drive proactive security monitoring, threat detection, and remediation across SAP-centric client environments, while maintaining clear client communications and high