SOC monitoring
Daily review and triage of alerts from your SIEM, EDR and cloud tools during agreed hours, with escalation paths for anything urgent.
Roles · Cybersecurity & IT
Remote cybersecurity and SOC analysts, recruited and managed for you.
An analyst who watches your alerts, investigates what looks wrong and chases the fixes your scanners turn up. They also keep the evidence your auditors will ask for.
Cybersecurity & IT
The wider Cybersecurity & IT team
Keeping systems safe and running is several jobs. An analyst watches and responds. An engineer builds the controls. Administrators keep servers and networks healthy, and IT support keeps people working.
IT Support Specialist
First, second and third-line support for your team.
Coming soonSystems & Network Administrator
Servers, networks, access and backups.
Coming soonSecurity Engineer
Designs controls and runs penetration tests.
Coming soonOne-line chooser: Watching alerts and responding sits with an analyst. Building the controls is a security engineer's job.
Someone watching your alerts every day
Most growing companies have security tools that produce alerts and reports nobody has time to read. An analyst reviews them, separates noise from real threats, responds to incidents by your playbook, and makes sure vulnerabilities get fixed in order of real risk. Your engineers keep building, and your leadership knows where you stand.
What they do for you
- Monitor and triage alerts from your SIEM, EDR and cloud security tools
- Investigate suspicious activity and escalate real incidents with a clear timeline
- Run vulnerability scans, rank findings by exploitability and business impact, and track fixes
- Review access, logins and permissions for unusual or excessive rights
- Maintain incident response playbooks and run tabletop exercises
- Collect evidence and maintain policies for SOC 2, ISO 27001 or customer security questionnaires
The analyst profile we screen for
Tools they work in
SplunkMicrosoft SentinelElastic SecurityCrowdStrike FalconMicrosoft DefenderSentinelOneWazuhTenable NessusQualysRapid7WizAWS GuardDutyOktaMicrosoft Entra IDVantaDrataWireshark
A good fit if:
- You have security tools in place but no one reviewing their output daily
- A customer or partner is asking for SOC 2 or ISO 27001, or a security questionnaire
- Vulnerability reports keep growing, and nothing gets fixed in order
Not the right fit if:
- You need someone to design and build security architecture; that's Security Engineer, a page added after launch
- You need a security leader (CISO) to set strategy; see Executive Search
- You need help with laptops, accounts and everyday IT; that's IT Support Specialist, a page added after launch
Questions for your analyst shortlist
01
"An alert shows a login from a new country for a finance user at 3 a.m. Walk us through it."
Strong answer: check travel and VPN context, the device, MFA results and what the session did, then contain the account if in doubt and document each step.
02
"The scanner reports 400 findings. How do you decide what gets fixed first?"
Strong answer: rank by whether a flaw is exploitable, exposed to the internet, used in known attacks and touching critical systems, then agree fix timelines with the owners. The severity score is only one input.
03
"What would you collect as evidence for a SOC 2 access-review control?"
Strong answer: the user list at a point in time, who reviewed it and when, what was changed, and proof the changes were made.
04
"How do you avoid alert fatigue?"
Strong answer: tune noisy rules with documented reasons, group related alerts, and check that a tuning change doesn't hide real attacks.
05
"Talk us through an incident you handled. What would you do differently?"
Strong answer: a specific timeline, their own role, what was contained and when, and a concrete lesson that changed a playbook.
Signs of a strong cybersecurity analyst:
- Documents every investigation so someone else could follow it
- Ranks by real risk and explains it in business terms
- Escalates quickly when in doubt, and doesn't sit on a possible incident
- Asks before taking any action that could disrupt production
- Keeps playbooks current after each incident
Signs of a weak cybersecurity analyst:
- Closes alerts as false positives without investigating
- Forwards raw scanner output to developers
- Treats compliance as paperwork and security as someone else's job
- Can't explain the attacks behind the alerts they triage
Incident response
Investigation, containment steps agreed in advance, evidence handling, communication with your team, and a written post-incident review.
Vulnerability management
Scanning, risk-based ranking, fix tracking with engineering owners, and reporting on what's still open.
Compliance support (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
Policies, control evidence, access reviews, vendor assessments, and answering customer security questionnaires, working with your auditor and tools such as Vanta or Drata.
How we recruit your security analyst
- 1
Talk it through
We agree the scope, the tools, the hours and who the analyst escalates to. For this role: your current security tools, any compliance framework and deadline, your incident escalation contacts, and the hours you need covered.
- 2
Meet a shortlist and choose
Each analyst is tested on the tools in your brief, and every one goes through background and reference checks. You interview and make the decision.
- 3
Start with support in place
You grant the access each task needs, and we stay in regular contact once your analyst has started.
Security analysts are a specialist hire, so the search usually runs longer than for general roles. We widen it internationally when the tools or certifications you need are rare.
How pricing works for a security analyst
A cybersecurity analyst can join through any of our ways to hire, for daily monitoring or a defined stretch such as audit preparation. You make the call, and the price depends on seniority, the hours covered and how you hire. We're glad to talk it through first.
Authority stays with you
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| Task | You | JiveTalent |
|---|---|---|
| Security policies, risk decisions and incident authority | Own: you decide what to accept and who to notify | – |
| Alert triage, investigations and the weekly security summary | Review and act on escalations | Your analyst handles them; we review coverage and reporting against your agreement at check-ins |
Security hiring: what people ask us
Is this a managed security service (MSSP)?
No. You get your own analyst, who works in your tools and to your playbooks as part of your team, instead of a shared operations center.
Will they work during our business hours?
We fix the analyst's hours and the overlap with your team in the brief, before any candidate is approached, including any cover you need outside them.
Can an analyst cover nights and weekends?
Yes. Time zones help here: we can recruit full-time analysts whose ordinary daytime hours line up with your nights and weekends, alongside the hours your own team covers.
What if it isn't working out?
Bring it to your account lead. We review it with you and the analyst and agree what happens next.
Do your analysts hold certifications?
Some hold certifications such as Security+, CySA+ or GIAC. If your contract or audit requires one, add it to the brief and we check for it during screening.
Will they help us pass SOC 2 or ISO 27001?
They do a large share of the work: policies, evidence, access reviews and questionnaires. The audit itself is run by an independent auditor.
How do you check the people who'll access our systems?
Background and reference checks are part of hiring every analyst, on top of the screening against your brief. You still grant the least access each task needs and keep the logs.
How do we see what our analyst is working on?
You can see their tracked time in the client app, where hours are reported week by week, and the weekly security summary covers the alerts and fixes behind it.
Related pages
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Ready to know what your alerts are telling you?
Book a call. We'll agree the brief for your cybersecurity analyst and explain each way to hire.