Security Operations Analyst (SIEM & Threat Detection)

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

Pragmatike is recruiting on behalf of a major international organization for a Security Operations Analyst specializing in SIEM and Threat Detection.

Youll join a global Cybersecurity Operations team focused on building operating and continuously improving the security monitoring capabilities protecting international organizations and their technology environments.

Unlike a traditional SOC monitoring role this position has a strong focus on SIEM administration detection engineering security content data-source onboarding use-case lifecycle management and detection optimization.

Youll work closely with Threat Intelligence Incident Response and Cybersecurity Operations teams to turn security requirements and emerging threats into effective measurable detection capabilities.

• Develop implement validate tune and maintain security monitoring and detection capabilities.

• Administer and optimize SIEM platforms across multiple customer environments.

• Manage security detection rules and use cases throughout their lifecycle.

• Onboard integrate test and validate new security data sources and telemetry feeds.

• Review and improve detection logic security content and monitoring configurations.

• Collaborate with Threat Intelligence and Incident Response teams to translate threats into actionable detection capabilities.

• Support cybersecurity architecture reviews and provide recommendations to improve security monitoring.

• Build and maintain security metrics dashboards KPIs and service-performance reports.

• Evaluate detection effectiveness and identify opportunities to reduce false positives.

• Contribute to quality assurance process reviews control validation and corrective actions.

• Maintain SOC procedures standards documentation knowledge bases and operational guidance.

• Prepare technical reports findings and recommendations for internal and external stakeholders.

• 5 years of relevant IT/cybersecurity experience.

• Proven hands-on experience administering a SIEM platform ideally Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel.

• Strong experience with SIEM/EDR environments and technical security analysis.

• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Security technologies.

• Strong cloud security knowledge across Azure AWS and/or GCP.

• Experience with platforms such as Splunk QRadar ArcSight Microsoft Sentinel or ELK.

• Experience with at least one EDR platform such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint or CrowdStrike.

• Knowledge of email security network monitoring and incident response.

• Strong Linux macOS and Windows knowledge.

• Fluent English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience designing SIEM architecture from initial design through implementation.

• Experience building data-ingestion pipelines for diverse cloud and on-premise log sources.

• AWS security monitoring experience.

• Scripting experience with Python PowerShell Bash Ruby or similar.

• Security certifications such as SC-200 GCIH CEH GCFA GIAC CCNA or MCSE.

• Experience working across multiple customer environments.

• Work beyond traditional SOC monitoring and contribute to the engineering and optimization of security detection capabilities.

• Gain exposure to large-scale SIEM EDR cloud and threat-detection environments.

• Work directly with Threat Intelligence Incident Response and Cybersecurity Operations teams.

• Help shape detection use cases monitoring architecture and operational processes.

• Work on cybersecurity services supporting multiple international organizations.

Pragmatike is committed to a fair transparent and inclusive recruitment process. We do not discriminate based on age disability gender gender identity or expression marital or civil partner status pregnancy or maternity race religion or belief sex or sexual orientation.

In accordance with GDPR your personal data will be processed lawfully fairly and securely and used solely for recruitment purposes including sharing it with our client(s) for employment consideration.

Required Experience:

IC