Job Description
About You
You thrive in fast-paced environments, collaborating with IT and network teams to ensure that all security tools and platforms are properly configured, monitored, and maintained to protect the organization’s infrastructure, endpoints, and cloud environments.
You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 1 year of hands-on experience in a Cybersecurity or SOC role.
- Experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., MS Sentinel, Stellar Cyber, Google SecOps).
- Experience with EDR/XDR tools (e.g., SentinelOne, MS Defender, Cortex XDR).
- Knowledge in security infrastructure configuration (Fortinet, Palo Alto).
- Understanding of IAM concepts, including MS Entra ID.
- Experience with cloud environments (GCP, Azure).
- Familiarity with IR, threat detection, and MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Basic scripting/querying skills (PowerShell, Python, KQL).
- Desired certifications: CompTIA Security+, Certified SOC Analyst (CSA), EC-Council Certified Incident Handler (ECIH).
- Advanced English (required).
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to evaluate complex datasets and incidents.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, for reporting and collaborating with team members.
- Ability to work independently and under pressure while maintaining attention to detail.
You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:
- Monitor, support, and configure SIEM and endpoint security tools to identify potential threats.
- Correlate events across endpoints, networks, identity systems, and cloud environments.
- Conduct initial analysis, triage, and escalation of security alerts following SOC procedures.
- Assist in fine-tuning detection rules and improving alert accuracy and response efficiency.
- Provide technical support and configuration assistance for security infrastructure and network controls.
- Review logs, network activity, and events to detect suspicious behaviors or misconfigurations.
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams to maintain secure network architecture and ensure connectivity complies with security standards.
- Support and configure identity protection and access monitoring tools.
- Analyze authentication patterns, privilege escalations, and abnormal access behaviors.
- Assist in enforcing secure authentication policies such as MFA and conditional access.
- Support endpoint protection solutions through configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Validate endpoint compliance, agent health, and policy configuration across devices.
- Assist with containment and coordination of response actions during incidents.
- Monitor and assist in the configuration of security controls within cloud environments.
- Ensure visibility and log collection from cloud workloads into security monitoring platforms.
- Validate compliance of cloud resources with organizational security baselines.
- Document incidents, investigations, and configuration changes with accuracy.
- Contribute to knowledge sharing, SOC playbooks, and process improvement initiatives.
- Participate in post-incident analysis to identify lessons learned and optimization opportunities.
Additional Information
About Us
We Are Engineered Different.
At Applaudo, talented people design, build, and scale meaningful, AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization, we collaborate across design, development, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate, make decisions, and grow.
We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication. These define how we work, how we support one another, and how we hold ourselves accountable.
Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and leading AI-native transformation at scale.
