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Senior Security Analyst

  • Almaty
  • Astana
  • Bengaluru
  • Remote.Kazakhstan
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Client

Our client is a dynamic fintech company specializing in retail finance solutions, helping consumers split payments over time with ease. Being one of the UK’s leading digital banks, they are driving innovation to create flexible, accessible, and seamless payment experiences for clients.

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Position overview

We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Senior Security Analyst to join our dynamic cybersecurity team. The Senior Security Analyst will be responsible for managing the full lifecycle of security incidents across multiple domains, including web, email, endpoint, identity, proxy, DLP, and threat intelligence sources.

This position includes a sign-in bonus.

This position requires the working hours to be from 9 AM to 5:30 PM UK time and involves participating in on call shifts outside of regular UK business hours.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end to end investigations across malware, intrusion, and cloud related security incidents
  • Perform malware triage and behavioral analysis, identify indicators of compromise, and provide clear remediation guidance
  • Conduct analysis of suspicious activity using Splunk, Splunk Enterprise Security, and AWS native services
  • Develop, tune, and maintain Splunk correlation rules, dashboards, alerts, and analytical queries
  • Enhance detection logic aligned with MITRE ATT CK techniques and reduce false positives
  • Configure, maintain, and validate log collection, parsing, routing, and normalization workflows
  • Troubleshoot issues in log ingestion pipelines and adjust processing logic when needed
  • Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to validate findings and propose improvements
  • Develop and maintain detection use cases for AWS environments
  • Create or update SOAR playbooks to support automated incident response
  • Improve SOC processes, detection coverage, and operational readiness
  • Maintain documentation related to investigations, detections, data pipelines, and security procedures
  • Support compliance driven SOC operations and adhere to defined SLAs

Requirements

  • Experience of 3 to 5 years in a SOC environment at L2 level or as a Security Engineer
  • Background in incident investigation and incident management, including handling malware, intrusion, and cloud security incidents
  • Practical experience with malware triage, behavioral analysis, and identifying indicators of compromise
  • Understanding of reverse engineering concepts sufficient to support deeper investigations
  • Hands on experience with AWS services such as CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, IAM, VPC, KMS, and S3
  • Advanced experience working with Splunk, including SPL queries, correlation rules, dashboards, and notable events
  • Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security
  • Background in detection engineering, including creating and improving detections aligned with MITRE ATT CK techniques
  • Proficiency with Splunk SPL and CloudWatch Logs Insights Query Language
  • Ability to build analytical datasets and detect anomalies
  • Experience configuring log routing, filtering, normalization, parsing, and troubleshooting pipelines
  • Hands on experience working with log producers such as agents, services, and forwarders
  • Strong understanding of networking, operating systems, and core enterprise security technologies such as firewalls, UTM, EDR, XDR, IDS, IPS, WAF, and vulnerability scanners
  • Ability to independently conduct end to end investigations
  • Proactive approach to improving detection rules, processes, and automation
  • Experience with SOAR platforms such as Splunk SOAR or XSOAR
  • Understanding of cloud native threat models and attack techniques targeting AWS
  • Experience in mature SOC environments, ideally in the financial sector, working with SLAs and compliance driven operations

Nice to have

  • Relevant security certifications (GIAC, CISSP, or equivalent)

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