Junior Security Analyst

As a Junior Security Analyst, you are an essential first line of defense within our Security Operations Center (SOC). Your primary mission is to monitor, analyze, and triage security alerts, ensuring that potential threats are identified quickly, accurately categorized, and escalated appropriately. In this role, you develop a strong foundation in security operations by working with SIEM tools, alerting systems, and standardized investigation procedures.

You collaborate closely with senior analysts, incident responders, and automation engineers to maintain operational excellence and protect customer environments.

• Monitor & Triage:
  Continuously monitor security alerts and events across customer environments
• Analyze & Classify:
  Perform initial analysis to distinguish false positives from genuine security incidents
• Escalate Effectively:
  Document findings and escalation validated threats following defined SOC procedures
• Investigation:
  Execute standard playbooks and contribution to improving alert quality through feedback
• Support SOC Operations:
  Contribute to maintaining high operational quality and SLA compliance

• Completed IT apprenticeship or university degree with a focus on cybersecurity
• Ideally, first professional experience in cybersecurity
• Solid understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals and common attack types (e.g. phishing, malware, ransomware)
• Good knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, VPNs)
• Strong analytical skills with a structured and detail‑oriented working style
• Ability to stay calm and focused in a fast-paced, alert-driven SOC environment
• Flexibility and willingness to work in a shift‑based operation
• Proficiency in German (French is a strong advantage), with clear written and verbal communication skills