Kobalt.io · 14 hours ago
L1 Security Analyst
United States
Full-time
Remote
Entry, Mid Level
1+ years expKobalt.io is dedicated to solving cybersecurity challenges for small to medium businesses. The L1 Security Analyst will contribute to the Security Operations Centre by investigating alerts, managing tickets, and running vulnerability scans to enhance client security.
Cloud SecurityCyber SecurityEnterpriseInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Investigations: Investigate alerts, analyze the evidence, document findings and raise security incidents as required. Prioritization of simultaneous events
Ticket Management: Create, manage, resolve and transfer tickets per ITSM best practices
Escalations: Address or escalate security incidents, customer enquiries and tool set issues. Escalate, as appropriate, to the customer, Sr L1 analysts, or L2 analysts
Scans: Run, interpret and communicate the results from periodic vulnerability scans of customer environments
Reports: Create regular reports for customers that include the interpretation of event patterns and suggest improvements to their security posture
Collaboration: Work with team members to assist with improvements, discovery and production of creative and insightful security use-cases
Participation in a 24/7 shift rotation is required
Qualification
Required
Diploma or Degree in cybersecurity or a related field and/or equivalent experience
1 - 3 years of on-the-job experience in a Security Operations Center (SOC)
Experience working with a SIEM tool such as Sumo Logic, Splunk and Azure Sentinel
Familiar with the MITRE ATT&CK framework
Understanding of On-Premise infrastructure and environments
Familiarity with both cloud-based environments, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Understand the incident handling process and ticket handling
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Able to explain cybersecurity incidents or concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
Strong and collaborative team player
Adaptive and able to pick up new concepts quickly
Participation in a 24/7 shift rotation is required
Preferred
ITIL (v3 or v4) Foundations
Experience as a system, network or firewall administrator
Working knowledge of the OSI network protocol stack, including major protocols such as ICMP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, SNMP and SSH
Understanding of popular cryptographic algorithms and protocols such as AES, MD5, SHA, SSL/TLS, etc
Company
Kobalt.io
Kobalt.io is a rapidly growing company that manages all aspects of cyber security programs for small and medium-sized, cloud-native businesses.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$1.67M2020-10-31Seed· $0.92M
2019-05-01Pre Seed· $0.74M
Leadership Team
Michael Argast
Co-founder and CEO at Kobalt
Recent News
2025-04-15
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