Contract - Senior SOC Analyst

  • Wellington
  • Contract/temp
  • Information Technology
  • Posted 2 days ago

Job Description

  • Utilise your MS Sentinel / MS Defender expertise
  • Engagement through to June 2025 (potential to extend)
  • Chance to join an enterprise environment

Our customer seeks a Senior SOC Analyst / Senior SOC Engineer to help them deal with and triage Cyber Incidents.

Ideally you will be in a Level 2 or Level 3 SOC role or may operating as a Cyber Incident Response Engineer currently.

Skill-sets and experience we seek includes:
  • Strong MS Sentinel expertise (been using it for a number of years)
  • Microsoft Sentinel Logic App Exposure
  • Strong MS Defender (know the whole Defender suite and have configured aspects of entire suite)
  • Azure Lighthouse knowledge (useful to have but not an absolute must have)
  • Strong knowledge of cyber security practices in a hybrid environment of on-premise, SaaS, and cloud services, preferably in an operation and/or incident management role.  
  • Strong experience with creating analytical queries, playbooks and automation rules.
  • Past experience mentoring other security analysts
  • Excellent oral & written technical communication skills 
  • Ability to identify and mitigate network vulnerabilities and explain how to avoid them 
  • Experience with both technical and operational support areas covering a broad range of security technologies, such as SIEM, firewalls, networking, system administration and scripting.  
This is an hourly rate contract initially through to the end of June 2025. For more info drop Nathan a note - nathan.masters@taska.co.nz or apply online