Associate Cyber Security Analyst

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Monitor and investigate security alerts, events, logs, phishing, malware, and potential incidents.
• Assist with incident investigation, containment, remediation, documentation, and escalation.
• Support vulnerability scanning, assessments, remediation, patch management, and security hardening.
• Maintain endpoint protection, monitoring, firewall, network security, remote access, IAM, MFA, and least-privilege controls.
• Support risk assessments, system and infrastructure security reviews, and cloud configuration monitoring.
• Maintain security records and reports; support awareness activities, threat research, and continuous improvement.

Minimum qualification

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent recognized graduate-level qualification in a listed or closely related computing or technology discipline.
• Recognized overseas equivalent qualifications will be considered.

Essential skills and knowledge

• Understanding of cyber security principles, common threats, phishing, malware, and ransomware.
• Understanding of network security, TCP/IP, protocols, firewalls, and Windows and/or Linux.
• Understanding of vulnerability and patch management, security monitoring, incident response, and SIEM.
• Understanding of IAM, authentication and authorization, MFA, role-based access control, and least privilege.
• Understanding of endpoint security, cloud security, data protection, and information security.

Experience and desirable exposure

• Commercial cyber security experience is desirable but not essential.
• Relevant experience may include university projects, internships, placements, practical coursework, graduate projects, entry-level IT security, or security-related IT work.
• Exposure to named security platforms, cloud services, Microsoft 365 Security, Entra ID, EDR, PowerShell, or scripting is advantageous, not mandatory.