Junior Security Operations Engineering Consultant (m/w/d)

It all starts with the mission: the company is here to protect European society from potentially devastating cyber attacks! This means we offer cyber security services to private and governmental organizations to help them better prepare for, prevent, detect and respond to cyber security incidents.

All of this is built on four fundamental values that define who we are: We are Proud, We Break Barriers, We Care and No BS!

Tasks

As a Junior Security Operations Engineering Consultant (m/w/d) located in Germany you will assist in various Security Operations Center (SOC) projects. You will gain exposure to SOC engineering concepts such as log onboarding, detection engineering, and SIEM technologies. Under the guidance of senior team members, you will support the design and implementation of security solutions for customers across different sectors.

You have strong communication and interpersonal skills, which enable you not only to understand requirements, but also to put these requirements into a development plan, explain it to customers and guarantee proper execution. You have an open and approachable mind, in line with the company's values.

Typical tasks include but are not limited to:

• Planning and managing the onboarding of new log sources, troubleshooting issues with log sources or systems with clients and vendors;
• Creating technical and process playbooks;
• Defining and setting up correlation rules, based on threat intelligence and specific customer requirements;
• Contributing to incident response procedures;
• Ensuring you remain up to speed with latest trends and technologies in the SOC field.

You are passionate about cyber security, engineering and automation. Building solutions and working with customers energizes you and you look forward to growing in all the aforementioned domains.

Requirements

• You hold citizenship in one of the 32 NATO member states or the Austrian citizenship;
• 1-2 years of practical experience (such as a SOC Analyst) in the field of cybersecurity or IT is mandatory;
• Experience with Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Security stack, or SIEM technologies such as Elastic, Splunk, or LogPoint;
• Experience with scripting in Python and/or other relevant scripting or automation language is a big plus;
• Ideally, familiarity with SIEM query languages or an interest in learning Sigma and YARA rules;
• Experience or coursework related to cybersecurity is beneficial.

Soft skills

• Ability to work independently, and keep track of your priorities;
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills that enable the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment across the entire company;
• Excellent English and German communication skills, both verbal and written;
• A positive, team-oriented, and mission-driven attitude;
• Ability to prepare and present your work to colleagues.

Benefits

At the company, we care. We are committed to offering you a highly competitive remuneration package including financial and non-financial components:

• Working and learning from the best people in the European cyber security industry. We have multiple SANS Instructors working at the company, our staff has presented at popular hacking conferences (BlackHat, BruCON, OWASP, etc) and all of our technical staff can acquire deep technical security certifications (GSE, GXPN, GREM, GCFA, OSCP, etc);
• Generous training budget of 10.000 EUR + 10 man days for attending lectures rolling over 2 years;
• An annual gross base salary between 57.000 EUR and 62.000 EUR, depending on your experience;
• Support for technical growth with Cloud trainings + certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure);
• Regular team-building and fun events;
• Our commitment to coach and counsel you and help you grow; each employee receives a personal coach within the team, whose role is to ensure your well-being and helps you grow in your career!
• Flexible working hours and home office possibilities (incl. working abroad weeks within the EU);
• Business Bike Leasing;
• BahnCard 50 1st class + public transfer ticket;
• 30 holidays;
• Cool offices in the center of Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna (with BBQ, kicker table, table tennis, playstations, etc.).

Disclaimer on the Use of AI Tools in the Application Process

Please be aware that the creation and submission of application documents (e.g. CV, cover letter, case studies, etc.) using AI-powered tools is only permitted to a limited extent.

Our expectations

Application documents must authentically reflect your own qualifications, personality, and motivation.

The use of AI for supportive purposes (e.g. spell-checking, improving wording) is acceptable.

Fully generated application documents created by AI without personal adaptation or review are not permitted.

Under no circumstances may the company information, data, or documents be uploaded to or processed by external AI tools.

We reserve the right to exclude applications from the selection and interview process that are clearly created primarily or exclusively by AI and show no recognizable personal input.

The purpose of this policy is to ensure a fair and transparent recruitment process and to obtain an authentic impression of our applicants.