Security Operations Analyst (Cyber Defense Operations)

Location: Valencia, Spain, Hybrid OR Remote across EMEA
Employment: Full-Time Contract
Duration: 6 months, with potential extension
Language: Fluent English required
Industry: Cybersecurity / Cloud / Enterprise Security

About the Opportunity

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a major international organization for a Security Operations Analyst to join a global Cybersecurity Operations team.

You’ll be part of a 24/7 Security Operations Centre (SOC) responsible for monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to cyber threats across enterprise, cloud, network, and endpoint environments.

This is a hands-on security role focused on alert triage, threat investigation, log analysis, incident response, and security monitoring, working alongside cybersecurity specialists distributed across multiple regions.

What You’ll Do

• Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across SIEM, EDR, Microsoft security tools, and cloud platforms.
• Analyze host and network logs from Windows, Linux, databases, applications, web servers, firewalls, and NIDS/HIDS.
• Investigate suspicious activity, identify root causes, and determine appropriate remediation or escalation.
• Support incident response, remediation, and recovery activities.
• Work closely with Incident Response and other cybersecurity teams to manage security threats.
• Analyze network and security events using TCP/IP, syslog, firewall, and network monitoring data.
• Identify opportunities to improve detection quality and reduce false positives through tuning and optimization.
• Gather technical information from clients to improve security monitoring and detection.
• Prepare and present security reports, summaries, and technical findings.
• Contribute to SOC procedures, documentation, knowledge bases, and quality-control processes.
• Review operational feedback and implement corrective actions to continuously improve service quality.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of relevant experience in IT/cybersecurity, including security alert triage and incident support.
• Hands-on experience working in a SOC environment.
• Strong experience with SIEM and EDR platforms.
• Advanced log analysis skills across Windows/Linux, databases, applications, and infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Security technologies, including Microsoft Sentinel and Defender.
• Experience with cloud security across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight, Microsoft Sentinel, or ELK.
• Experience with at least one EDR solution such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint or CrowdStrike.
• Knowledge of email security, network monitoring, and incident response.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, macOS, and Windows.
• Fluent English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on an Incident Response team with Tier-1/Tier-2 incident triage.
• AWS security monitoring experience across IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS environments.
• Scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ruby, or similar.
• Certifications such as Microsoft SC-200, GCIH, CEH, GCFA, GIAC, CCNA, or MCSE.
• Customer-facing cybersecurity experience.

Why Join

• Work inside a global 24/7 cybersecurity operation protecting international organizations.
• Gain exposure to large-scale cloud, SIEM, EDR, network, and endpoint security environments.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity specialists across multiple regions and disciplines.
• Work directly on real-world threat detection and incident response.
• Build experience across a broad enterprise security technology stack.