Security Operations Analyst Trainee (Cybersecurity)

Location: Georgia; candidates from Tbilisi and Batumi attend in-office, while participants from other cities across Georgia can join online.

Salary: up to 1350 GEL per month before taxes.

Company

Andersen is an international IT outsourcing company creating digital products for fintech, banking, healthcare, logistics, e-commerce, and other industries.

What you will do

• Analyze security events, logs, network traffic, and indicators of compromise.
• Investigate suspicious activity and support incident response.
• Detect threats using SIEM platforms and security monitoring tools.
• Distinguish real threats from false positives through SOC-focused event analysis.
• Complete practical assignments and lab activities modeled on real SOC Analyst work.

Requirements

• English proficiency at Intermediate level or higher.
• Technical education or work experience in IT.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, TCP and UDP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, DHCP, common network protocols, and ports.
• Basic Linux command-line skills and understanding of Windows users, processes, services, and Event Viewer.
• Understanding of how modern web applications work.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity fundamentals, including phishing, malware, vulnerabilities, and indicators of compromise.
• Analytical thinking and the ability to solve complex technical problems.

Nice to have

• Participation in CTF competitions, especially Blue Team and Digital Forensics challenges.
• Self-study in cybersecurity, relevant courses, or a personal security research lab.
• Ability to read and analyze PowerShell, Bash, or Python code and scripts.
• Understanding of common web application attacks, including SQL Injection, XSS, and Brute Force.
• Skeptical thinking and the ability to analyze information independently.

Culture & Benefits

• Five-month full-time traineeship: five days per week and eight hours per day, from the first day in the Lab to the first day on a commercial project.
• Practice-oriented training with experienced mentors, regular technical assessments, and a personal coordinator.
• Access to modern cybersecurity approaches, SOC tools, an educational platform, courses, and internal development programs.
• Strong engineering community with expert knowledge exchange and internal meetups.
• A 1.5-year training agreement and an employment opportunity upon successful completion; no scholarship is provided during the traineeship.
• Participants need their own laptop.

Hiring process

• Every application will be reviewed.