Senior SOC Threat Hunter - Remote & Impact-Driven

Placements24; Mossel Bay; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Fully remote

Home office allowance

Health insurance

Job summary

Placements24 seeks a Senior SOC Analyst with a strong threat hunting focus to join a fully remote security team. You will proactively hunt threats, analyze logs, and develop detections while supporting incident response. This is ideal for an experienced professional advancing proactive threat detection in a cutting-edge operation.

The role offers remote work from SA, home office allowance, health coverage, and ongoing training with advanced threat intel tools in a collaborative global team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field; relevant certifications are a strong asset.
• Minimum of 5 years in cybersecurity with SOC/IR or threat intel focus.
• Experience with SIEM/EDR and threat hunting is required.

Responsibilities

• Proactively hunt for advanced threats using diverse data sources.
• Develop threat hunting hypotheses from threat intel and TTPs.
• Analyze large logs, network, and endpoint telemetry for IOCs.
• Create detection rules and queries to catch evasive threats.
• Investigate suspected incidents identified through hunting.
• Collaborate with IR to contain and recover from threats.
• Mentor junior analysts in hunting techniques.
• Document methodologies and findings.

Skills

Threat hunting

SOC operations

Incident response

SIEM analysis

EDR

Python

PowerShell

Cloud security

Threat intelligence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Security

Certifications: GCIH, GCFA, CySA+

Tools

Splunk

Elastic Stack

EDR tools

Job description

Placements24 seeks a Senior SOC Analyst with a strong threat hunting focus to join a fully remote security team. You will proactively hunt threats, analyze logs, and develop detections while supporting incident response. This is ideal for an experienced professional advancing proactive threat detection in a cutting-edge operation.

The role offers remote work from SA, home office allowance, health coverage, and ongoing training with advanced threat intel tools in a collaborative global team.