Senior SOC Analyst

About Us:

Planet is a leading technology company transforming payments by putting customer experience first. We offer integrated solutions that include payment processing, VAT refunds, dynamic currency conversion, and management services for merchants in the Retail and Hospitality sectors worldwide.

In recent years, we have experienced significant growth, expanding our services and global presence. 

With strong private equity investors, Advent International and Eurazeo, we have the financial capital and expertise to grow our capabilities and reach through acquisitions.

Our mission is to create a world of connected commerce where payments are simple, secure, and seamless, enabling our partners to deliver exceptional experiences to their customers.

Role Overview

As a Senior SOC Analyst you will be working alongside our established Global SOC Team and our MSSP partner to effectively and timely respond and manage security incidents and alerts.

Planet’s Global SOC Team provides 24x7x365 monitoring and you will be required to work shifts.

What you will do

• Be the first point of contact for security events, anomalies, incidents, and investigations.
• Lead the response to the incidents from the start to the end.
• Create and improve security incident response playbooks and processes.
• Monitor and triage alerts produced by IDS/IPS, EDR, and file integrity monitoring solutions.
• Conduct log-based and endpoint-based threat detection to protect against threats coming from multiple sources.
• Correlate suspicious activities across assets (endpoint, network, applications) and environments (on-premises, cloud) to identify patterns of anomalous activity.
• Work with our MSSP and service owners to ensure proper onboarding of all log sources into the SIEM solution.
• Perform Digital Forensics during Incident Response.
• Prepares detailed incident closure report and submits to team and SOC Director/Manager.
• Create security-related documents, policies, and procedures.

Who you are

• 6+ years’ experience in information security monitoring and incident response.
• Proven experience in working with Splunk SIEM and in using SOAR solutions, preferably Google Chronicle (Siemplify).
• Proven experience with Microsoft Defender XDR.
• Proven experience with Phishing and Malware analysis.
• Proven experience with Digital Forensics.
• Ability to work independently and complete tasks if alone on the shift.
• Comfortable building scripts to automate tasks (e.g. PowerShell, Python).
• Experience with File Integrity Monitoring solutions would be a plus.

Why Planet :

Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce. We would love to hear from you – Apply now.

At Planet, we embrace a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office.
 

Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.