Cyber Defense Analyst
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Job Location:
San Salvador - El Salvador
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
4 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About You
You thrive in fast-paced environments collaborating with IT and network teams to ensure that all security tools and platforms are properly configured monitored and maintained to protect the organizations infrastructure endpoints and cloud environments.
You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:
- Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Cybersecurity or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 1 year of hands-on experience in a Cybersecurity or SOC role.
- Experience with SIEM platforms (e.g. MS Sentinel Stellar Cyber Google SecOps).
- Experience with EDR/XDR tools (e.g. SentinelOne MS Defender Cortex XDR).
- Knowledge in security infrastructure configuration (Fortinet Palo Alto).
- Understanding of IAM concepts including MS Entra ID.
- Experience with cloud environments (GCP Azure).
- Familiarity with IR threat detection and MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Basic scripting/querying skills (PowerShell Python KQL).
- Desired certifications: CompTIA Security Certified SOC Analyst (CSA) EC-Council Certified Incident Handler (ECIH).
- Advanced English (required).
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to evaluate complex datasets and incidents.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written for reporting and collaborating with team members.
- Ability to work independently and under pressure while maintaining attention to detail.
You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:
- Monitor support and configure SIEM and endpoint security tools to identify potential threats.
- Correlate events across endpoints networks identity systems and cloud environments.
- Conduct initial analysis triage and escalation of security alerts following SOC procedures.
- Assist in fine-tuning detection rules and improving alert accuracy and response efficiency.
- Provide technical support and configuration assistance for security infrastructure and network controls.
- Review logs network activity and events to detect suspicious behaviors or misconfigurations.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams to maintain secure network architecture and ensure connectivity complies with security standards.
- Support and configure identity protection and access monitoring tools.
- Analyze authentication patterns privilege escalations and abnormal access behaviors.
- Assist in enforcing secure authentication policies such as MFA and conditional access.
- Support endpoint protection solutions through configuration monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Validate endpoint compliance agent health and policy configuration across devices.
- Assist with containment and coordination of response actions during incidents.
- Monitor and assist in the configuration of security controls within cloud environments.
- Ensure visibility and log collection from cloud workloads into security monitoring platforms.
- Validate compliance of cloud resources with organizational security baselines.
- Document incidents investigations and configuration changes with accuracy.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing SOC playbooks and process improvement initiatives.
- Participate in post-incident analysis to identify lessons learned and optimization opportunities.
Additional Information :
About Us
We Are Engineered Different.
At Applaudo talented people design build and scale meaningful AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization we collaborate across design development cloud data and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate make decisions and grow.
We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence Collaborative Teamwork Unsolicited Respect Consistent Transparency and Efficient Communication. These define how we work how we support one another and how we hold ourselves accountable.
Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast take ownership and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally investing in modern ways of working and leading AI-native transformation at scale.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- ArcGIS
- Intelligence Community Experience
- GIS
- Python
- Computer Networking
- Data Collection
- Intelligence Experience
- R
- Relational Databases
- Analysis Skills
- Data Management
- Application Development
