Cyber Security Analyst

At a Glance: The Story Behind AMINA

Founded in April 2018 and headquartered in Zug, AMINA Bank is a pioneer in the financial industry providing a seamless, secure and easy-to-use bridge between digital and traditional assets. As a smart bank AMINA Bank offers a fully universal suite of regulated banking services in the emerging digital economy. In August 2019, AMINA Bank received a Swiss banking and securities dealer license – the first time a reputed, regulatory authority such as FINMA has granted a licence to a financial services provider with a core capability in digital assets. The broad, vertically integrated spectrum of services combined with the highest security standards, make AMINA Bank’s value proposition unique. CVVC Global Report and CB Insights names AMINA Bank as Top 50 Companies within the blockchain ecosystem.

Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It)

We’re looking for a talented and dynamic individual, who is self-motivated and loves finding optimal operational results to join us as a SOC Analyst and Incident Responder to protect our enterprise infrastructure against cyber threats.

Your AMINA To-Do List

• Security Monitoring and Triage: Handle initial monitoring and triaging alerts, conduct deeper investigations into escalated incidents, and manage complex threats. You will be responsible for responding to basic incidents, escalating issues as needed, and performing advanced analysis to resolve issues that Tier 1 analysts cannot handle.
• Incident Response: Lead response efforts for major incidents such as ransomware and data breaches. Coordinate containment and eradication with IT-Ops and IT-Security teams, develop and execute recovery plans post-incident, conduct root cause analysis, and document lessons learned. You will also brief leadership on incident status and impact.
• Threat Hunting and Intelligence: Proactively search for hidden threats or anomalies, gather and analyze threat intelligence, and produce actionable threat reports and briefings. Collaborate with Threat Intelligence Analysts to prioritize hunting efforts and refine detection logic.
• Forensic Analysis: Conduct detailed investigations into security breaches to support recovery and legal efforts. Collect and preserve digital evidence, analyze malware, logs, and memory dumps for attack details, and prepare forensic reports for legal or compliance use.
• Malware Analysis: Specialize in dissecting and understanding malicious software. Reverse-engineer malware samples, identify and document IOCs and behaviors, assist in developing detection signatures, and support incident response with malware insights.

Your golden ticket to the AMINA team:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years in security analysis and incident response, with proficiency in tools such as SIEM, XDR, and IR platforms.
• Proven experience in handling major security incidents, conducting threat hunting, and performing forensic analysis.
• Experience in cloud security, network security, and application security is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with detection engineering and API security is a plus.
• Advanced proficiency in log and event analysis, threat identification, and mitigation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a knack for collaboration.
• Proficiency in English, both written and spoken, with good presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CEH, OSCP, GCIH, GCIA, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer, or equivalent.
• Understanding of ITIL and ITSM processes, and strong understanding of IT-Security Detection & Response principles and practices.
• Proactive with a continuous improvement approach, staying updated on emerging security threats and technologies.

Why We’re Awesome

Join our skilled team and together redefine finance.

We owe our exponential growth to our innovative and collaborate team spirit and talented workforce. Every voice counts as we are always committed to learning from diverse perspectives and backgrounds because our people make the difference at AMINA Bank. Regardless of your age, gender, belief, and background, at AMINA EVERYONE (E) is welcome!