SOC Analyst

SOC Analyst

About Ekco

Founded in 2016 Ekco is now one of the fastest growing cloud and security solution providers in Europe! 

We specialise in enabling companies to progress along the path of cloud maturity, cybersecurity, managing transformation and driving better outcomes from our customers’ existing technology investments.

We are the people who power your possible

We have over 600 highly talented and supportive colleagues (and counting) across a number of regional offices in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Malaysia.

The Role

We wish to appoint SOC Analyst to our team. The candidate will become part of a team of that delivers a range of advisory and technology services to our clients. This is a great opportunity to become involved in a dynamic and rapidly growing team delivering a leading range of professional services offering.

EKCO will support you and encourage your growth and development to identify further potential and expertise in the cybersecurity field.

Day to day your role will involve:

• Performing accurate and precise real-time analysis and correlation of logs/alerts from a multitude of client devices.
• Determining if events constitute security incidents e.g.: security events and incidents from SIEM, Firewall (FW), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Antivirus (AV), Directory Servers, Network Access Control (NAC) and other client data sources.
• Analysing and assessing security incidents and advancing to client resources or collaborating with internal teams for additional assistance
• Investigating security events forwarded from client for security risk.
• Conducting tuning engagements with security engineers to develop/adjust SIEM rules and analyst response procedures.
• Raising incidents to appropriate Senior Security Analyst or Incident Response staff or relevant sources to confirm if there is increased risk to the business
• Recognising potential; successful; and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough reviewing and analysing relevant event detail and summary information
• Performing vulnerability scans and assessments.
• Using TCP/IP networking skills to perform network analysis to isolate and diagnose.
• Responding to inbound requests via phone and other electronic means for technical assistance.
• Documenting actions in cases to effectively communicate information internally and to client.
• Reporting common and repeat problems (trend analysis) to management and propose process and technical improvements.
• Assist in providing resolution plans for system and network issues.
• Providing cover in line with rotating shift patterns. You should be flexible to rotating 8, 10 or 12 hour shifts. We provide 24/7 cover to clients and shifts are allocated accordingly
• Performing other duties as assigned.

To be successful in this role you’ll need/ What you’ll bring to the role or team/ What we’re looking for in a team mate

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Network Security, Information Security, Information

Technology, or Mathematics (or equivalent work experience)

• Keen problem solving/ troubleshooting skills
• A can-do attitude
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You should be able to communicate technical details clearly.
• The ability to adjust and adapt to changing priorities in a dynamic environment
• A pro-active approach to addressing issues and requests and the ability to multi task
• The ability to learn new technology and concepts quickly
• Great organisational skills and attention to detail

Bonus points if you have:

• Prior experience working with SIEM or EDR – E.g. SPLUNK, IBM QRadar, Sentinel, Rapid7, Carbon Black
• Industry recognized certifications – E.g. CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Microsoft SC-200
• Theoretical or practical knowledge in the following areas:
  • Unix, Linux, Windows, etc. operating systems
  • Exploits, vulnerabilities, network attacks
  • Well-known networking protocols and services (FTP, HTTP, SSH, SMB,

LDAP, etc.)

• Packet analysis tools (tcpdump, Wireshark, ngrep, etc.) o Regular expressions
• Database structures and queries

We believe in taking care of our team so as one of us you’ll have access to our “Ekco Extras”

Why Ekco

• ⭐️Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the year
• 🚀VMware & Veeam top partner status
• 🏅Ranked as 4th fastest growing technology company in the Deloitte Fast50 Awards
• 🌈Ekco are committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equality, inclusion and belonging
• 🎉We recognise the value of internal mobility and encourage opportunities for internal development & progression
• ✨Flexible working with a family friendly focus are at the core of our company values