WE WANT YOU:

Are you ready to be the vigilant guardian of our digital landscape? BET Software is looking for a Junior Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst to keep a watchful eye on our systems, detect potential threats, and ensure network activity remains secure. In this role, you’ll monitor security events, analyse suspicious activities, and escalate incidents as needed—all while keeping documentation up to date. Your expertise will be key in maintaining a proactive security posture and strengthening our SOC operations. If you’re passionate about cybersecurity and eager to make an impact, apply now and join a team that values innovation and vigilance.

• This position is a shift work based with a rotational schedule – This is a 365 day/7 days per week/24 hours a day department.
• Monitoring and analysis of cyber security events.
• Monitoring of network traffic to detect potential threats and then escalating where necessary.
• Analysing security breaches to identify the root cause and escalate to the Intermediate Security Analyst for resolutions.
• Services monitored will include, but are not limited to SIEM, IDS/IPS, Firewall, Web Application Firewalls, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Databases.
• Security Event Correlation and Reporting to appropriate Intermediate Security Analyst or Incident Response staff or relevant sources to determine increased risk to the business.
• Research and stay aware current IT security trends and news.
• Recognise potential; successful; and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough reviews and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information. Help colleagues install security software and understand information security management.
• Monitoring that all security tools are working properly.
• Research security enhancements and make recommendations to management.
• Update inaccurate and add missing knowledge base documents where required.
• Handles escalations effectively, ensuring a minimal number of duplicate escalations created.
• When acknowledging alerts, ensures alerts are closed at the end of every shift.
• Monitors alerts and incidents diligently by actioning them in a timeous manner.
• Investigates alerts using the systems provided and adds investigation details to escalated incident descriptions.
• Reports back on identified trends that may be forming and/or proactive actions taken to reduce spam.
• Use advanced analytic tools to determine emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities