Senior Security Analyst (L3)

About the role

The Senior Security Analyst (L3) leads advanced security monitoring, threat detection, incident investigation and threat hunting within ZainTECH's Security Operations Center. Acting as the senior escalation point for complex, high‑severity incidents, the role supports continuous improvement of cybersecurity monitoring and response across enterprise and customer environments.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze and investigate security events using SIEM and SOAR platforms.
• Develop and maintain correlation rules, dashboards, reports, filters and detection use cases.
• Conduct proactive threat‑hunting activities and multi‑stage investigative analysis.
• Coordinate evidence gathering, documentation and post‑incident activities.
• Support incident containment, eradication, recovery and continuous improvement of SOC processes.
• Collaborate with SOC Engineering, Incident Response and Security Operations teams to refine monitoring capabilities.
• Contribute to operational reporting, SOC metrics and executive‑level reporting.

Required profile

• Senior‑level professional with strong understanding of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) and attacker TTPs.
• Experience in incident response methodologies and digital forensics concepts.
• Ability to develop and optimize SIEM content and improve detection accuracy.
• Proven capability to lead complex investigations and support high‑severity incident escalations.

Required skills

• SIEM platforms
• SOAR platforms
• Correlation rule development
• Dashboard creation
• Log integration and tuning
• Threat hunting
• Incident response
• Digital forensics