Senior Security Analyst

Join Europe's leading, high-growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea, you'll be part of a team energised by innovation and passionate about delivering exceptional results. We craft cutting-edge solutions in data and analytics, AI, cloud infrastructure and security, driving digital transformation that empowers our customers to scale, modernise and lead in their industries. We're driven by ideas and powered by our people.

We are looking for a Senior Security Analyst to join our MSSP team. 

We really value in-person collaboration, so we're looking for you to spend at least 60% of your time on-site. This means being at our company offices or at a client's site.

The purpose of this role is to detect, investigate and respond to security events and incidents as part of our MSSP team. Your main objective will be to sustain the efforts of our team, and as such to support our  customers in their activities.

• Use analytical skills and attention to detail to monitor and respond to security events and incidents.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of team performance and operational efficiency.
• Show eagerness to learn and proactively enhance skills in the cybersecurity field.
• Monitor logs and security events across various security tools and act as the first responder to security incidents by performing triage, threat analysis, and containment.
• Document and report on security incidents with detailed analysis and remediation recommendations, maintaining accurate records to enhance future responses.
• Communicate incident response activities to stakeholders, including technical teams, senior management, and customers. Escalate complex issues to senior analysts as needed.
• Optimize detection rules and alert thresholds to reduce false positives and improve accuracy.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting to identify potential threats that bypass security controls and detection mechanisms.
• Continuously research emerging threats and vulnerabilities to inform detection strategies and incident response playbooks.
• Participate in our incident response on-call service to support the team when necessary

• Strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
• Understanding of how adversaries compromise networks, the stages of an attack, and effective detection techniques.
• Knowledge of enterprise security technologies, operating systems, cloud services, and the ability to identify indicators of compromise across these environments.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with proficiency in assessing security alerts, conducting log analysis, vulnerability assessments, and identifying exploitation techniques.
• Self-driven with the ability to work independently and collaborate effectively in teams.
• Experience with security tools and technologies such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR, NDR, and major cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with basic scripting and the ability to search log data and write detection rules using SQL-like query languages.

Exceptional performance in this role can lead to advancement opportunities within our career framework or internal opportunities with other business areas, aligned with your career aspirations and business needs.

Potential career development could include progression to the next level or cross-skilling into related roles, such as security engineer in the MSSP team, based on performance and ongoing development.

Financial:

• Discretionary company bonus scheme.
• Employee referral scheme
• Meal Vouchers

Health & Wellbeing:

• Health Care Package
• Life and Health Insurance 
• Bookster 

Time Off & Flexibility: 

• 28 days of annual leave
• Floating bank holidays 
• An extra paid day off on your birthday.
• Ten paid learning days per year.
• Flexible working hours
• Sabbatical leave (after 5 years).
• Work from anywhere (up to 3 weeks per year).

Development & Recognition: 

• Industry-recognised training & certifications.
• Bonusly: employee recognition and rewards platform.
• Clear opportunities for career development.
• Length of Service Awards.

Extra Perks:

• Regular company events.

At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all. If you feel we can improve in any way, please reach out to our careers team via email at or connect with us on LinkedIn via our Qodea Company Page.