Senior SOC Analyst
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About the Role
ITHR Technologies seeks a Senior SOC Analyst for its Managed Security Services team in the UAE. This L3-level role involves leading complex alert investigations, incident response, threat hunting, and improving detection capabilities across customer environments.
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Responsibilities
- Perform in depth triage, investigation, and analysis of security alerts across multiple customer SIEM environments
- Act as the L3 escalation point for complex or high severity incidents escalated by L1/L2 analysts
- Lead incident response activities including containment, eradication, recovery, and post incident review
- Conduct proactive threat hunting using MITRE ATT&CK, threat intelligence, and customer specific risk profiles
- Develop and tune SIEM detection rules, correlation logic, and alert thresholds
- Develop and maintain SOC runbooks and incident response playbooks
- Produce high quality incident reports suitable for both technical and business audiences
- Integrate and operationalise threat intelligence including IOCs, TTPs, and threat actor profiles
- Investigate activity across EDR, network, identity, cloud, and application log sources
- Mentor and guide L1 and L2 analysts through technical coaching and case reviews
- Support customer onboarding including log source validation, baseline reviews, and detection use case configuration
- Participate in shift handovers ensuring complete transfer of active investigations and operational awareness
Requirements
- 3 6 years of hands on SOC or Security Operations experience
- Minimum 1 2 years operating at an L2/L3 level
- Strong experience performing alert triage, incident investigation, and response
- Hands on experience with one or more SIEM platforms (Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, IBM QRadar, Elastic SIEM)
- Experience with EDR solutions (CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint)
- Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK
- Solid knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, firewalls, proxies, and network attack techniques
- Experience analysing Windows and Linux artefacts
- Excellent documentation and customer reporting skills
- Must possess at least one of: BTL2, GCIH, GCFA, CompTIA CASP+
- MSSP experience is highly desirable
- Experience with SOAR platforms (Microsoft Sentinel SOAR, Palo Alto XSOAR, Splunk SOAR)
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- We are looking for a technically strong and experienced Senior SOC Analyst to join the ITHR Security Operations team.
- This is a hands on L3 level role where you will own complex alert investigations, lead incident response activities, conduct proactive threat hunting, and continuously improve detection capabilities across customer environments.
- As a senior member of the SOC, you will act as the escalation point for junior analysts, contribute to playbook development, and maintain the quality and consistency of SOC deliverables.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform in depth triage, investigation, and analysis of security alerts across multiple customer SIEM environments.
- Act as the L3 escalation point for complex or high severity incidents escalated by L1/L2 analysts.
- Lead incident response activities including containment, eradication, recovery, and post incident review.
- Conduct proactive threat hunting using MITRE ATT&CK, threat intelligence, and customer specific risk profiles.
- Develop and tune SIEM detection rules, correlation logic, and alert thresholds.
- Develop and maintain SOC runbooks and incident response playbooks.
- Produce high quality incident reports suitable for both technical and business audiences.
- Integrate and operationalise threat intelligence including IOCs, TTPs, and threat actor profiles.
- Investigate activity across EDR, network, identity, cloud, and application log sources.
- Mentor and guide L1 and L2 analysts through technical coaching and case reviews.
- Support customer onboarding including log source validation, baseline reviews, and detection use case configuration.
- Participate in shift handovers ensuring complete transfer of active investigations and operational awareness.
Required Qualifications
- 3 6 years of hands on SOC or Security Operations experience.
- Minimum 1 2 years operating at an L2/L3 level.
- Strong experience performing alert triage, incident investigation, and response.
- MSSP experience is highly desirable.
- Hands on experience with one or more SIEM platforms: Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, IBM QRadar, Elastic SIEM.
- Experience with EDR solutions including CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
- Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK.
- Solid knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, firewalls, proxies, and network attack techniques.
- Experience analysing Windows and Linux artefacts including event logs, process trees, registry, persistence mechanisms, and scheduled tasks.
- Excellent documentation and customer reporting skills.
- Must possess at least one of the mandatory certifications: BTL2, GCIH, GCFA, CompTIA CASP+.
Preferred Qualifications
- MSSP or multi tenant SOC experience.
- Experience with SOAR platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel SOAR, Palo Alto XSOAR, or Splunk SOAR.
- Cloud security monitoring experience across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Basic digital forensics experience.
- Experience using Threat Intelligence Platforms such as MISP, OpenCTI, or Recorded Future.
- Scripting skills using Python, PowerShell, or KQL.
- Experience supporting customers across the UAE or Middle East.
- Familiarity with regional compliance frameworks such as UAE IA, NESA, or SAMA.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary aligned with experience and certifications.
- Annual training and certification budget.
- Exposure to genuine enterprise cyber incidents across multiple industries.
- Opportunity to work with advanced SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and Threat Intelligence platforms.
- Clear career progression into SOC Team Lead, Detection Engineer, DFIR Analyst, or Cybersecurity Consultant.
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