Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst

Location: Manila, Philippines; hybrid work with two days per week in the BGC office. Shift: 3pm–11pm Manila Time, with rotating nights, weekends, public holidays, and on-call support.

Company

hirify.global builds fintech software that supports digital wealth management and access to financial markets for more than 22 million end customers.

What you will do

• Monitor, triage, investigate, and correlate security alerts and events across SIEM, UEBA, EDR, DLP, network monitoring, email security, vulnerability, cloud, and threat intelligence technologies.
• Provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 support, assist with incident response, escalate critical incidents, and complete documented shift handovers.
• Support threat hunting and analyze emerging threats, vulnerabilities, malware, security trends, and log data across multiple security layers.
• Develop and improve custom detections, signatures, correlations, alerting, playbooks, dashboards, reports, and security metrics.
• Communicate incident updates and resolution status to internal stakeholders, including senior management.
• Maintain incident reports, knowledge base articles, operational playbooks, and participate in projects improving SOC efficiency and tooling.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Security, Forensics, Cyber Security, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• At least two years of experience in security operations or a related information security role, ideally at Tier 1 or Tier 2 level.
• Knowledge of the Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK, and D3FEND frameworks.
• Knowledge of firewalls, SIEM, NIDS/NIPS/HIDS/HIPS, EDR, DLP, SOAR, proxies, network behavior analytics, orchestration, automation, and cloud security.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, FTP, SSH, SSL/TLS, HTTP, network analysis, network and security applications, and email security.
• Good knowledge of common malware threats and attack methods.
• Basic knowledge of scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, .NET, Ruby, Java, or C.
• Ability to communicate clearly, document investigations and playbooks, manage multiple risk-prioritized tasks, work independently and collaboratively, adapt to change, and continue learning.
• Willingness and ability to work rotating shifts, including nights, weekends, and public holidays.

Nice to have

• Experience as a security analyst, incident handler or responder, security engineer, or penetration tester.
• Professional certifications such as GCIA, GCIH, GCFE, GCFA, Security+, CCNA CyberOps, OSCP, GPEN, GWAPT, CEH, or CySA+.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative information security environment guided by open and honest communication, teamwork, inclusion, servant leadership, and personal accountability.
• Full-time employee benefits include a market-leading salary, annual bonus, private medical and dental insurance, life insurance, and training and development funding.
• 20 days of vacation leave plus regular and special non-working holidays, parental leave, flexible working hours, and hybrid work.
• Modern city-center office, night differential in line with company policy and Philippine labor regulations, team lunch-outs, refreshments, and recognition rewards.