Job description

As a Junior Cyber Defense Consultant, you will support our customers together with experienced colleagues in the implementation and operation of solutions for detecting, analyzing and defending against cyber attacks in the SOC environment.

Specifically, you can expect the following:

• Recording and analyzing the objectives and framework conditions for setting up a SOC/CDC and the technical solutions in this environment
• Development of operational, role/rights concepts as well as SOC and CDC processes
• Conception, design and implementation of software solutions for the detection, response & defense against cyber attacks
• Development, implementation and optimization of detection mechanisms
• Mentoring colleagues with less professional experience
• Project & team management for larger customer projects

REQUIREMENT PROFILE

• At least vocational training in an IT profession OR a Bachelor’s degree in a computer science program *
• A solid foundation in all macro areas of IT (networking, operating systems & basic scripting)
• Very good written and spoken German and English.
• Willingness to travel (90% of our projects are currently remote)
• An analytical, structured and independent way of thinking and working
• A high level of customer and service orientation and assumption of responsibility in a team
• Entrepreneurial thinking & acting
• Ideally first points of contact and knowledge in one or more of the following product segments:
• SIEM (e.g. Elastic SIEM, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, QRadar)
• EDR (e.g. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Elastic Defend, CrowdStrike Falcon)
• NDR (e.g. Corelight, Vectra AI, Darktrace)
• SOAR (e.g. Swimlane, Palo Alto XSOAR, Microsoft Sentinel)
• THOR APT Scanner

* (In exceptional cases, we also hire lateral entrants if extraordinary motivation & initiative as well as solid specialist knowledge can be demonstrated).