Contract - Cyber SOC Analyst

  • Auckland
  • Contract/temp
  • Information Technology
  • Posted 11 days ago

Job Description

  • Initial contract role to the end of June 2025
  • Utilise your MS Defender skills
  • Join a group supporting an enterprise environment

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

Ideally you will be in a "Level 2" or "Level 3" or may even be the "Lead SOC Expert" 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 (has used the Defender suite and have configured aspects of entire suite)
  • 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