Principal Security Operations Center Analyst

Job Overview

As a Principal Security Operations Center Analyst at Huntress, you'll be the most senior technical voice on the APAC SOC floor. You'll work closely with Product, Product Research, and Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting to drive technical improvements and lead by example as a cultural driver for the team.

Responsibilities

• Own complex, multi-host intrusions end-to-end, from triage through forensic timelining, root cause, and remediation
• Act as the SOC's technical partner to Product, Product Research, and DE&TH
• Perform advanced static and dynamic malware analysis, research emerging tradecraft, and publish findings
• Find repeatable investigation patterns and design, build, and maintain automation and human-led agentic workflows
• Own quality on the floor and provide technical leadership and mentoring across every level of the team
• Handle threat-related escalations from SOC Support and write clear explanations of complex activity and its business risk

Requirements

• 6+ years in SOC, Incident Response, DFIR, or MDR roles
• Deep knowledge of attacker tradecraft across MITRE ATT&CK
• Deep forensic and investigation experience across Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Strong cloud identity investigation and remediation experience in Microsoft 365 / Entra ID and Google Workspace
• Advanced static and dynamic malware analysis skills
• Strong enterprise Windows administration and core networking knowledge
• Strong hands-on AI skills
• Understanding of inline quality delivery
• Proven technical leadership and mentoring experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Published research, blogs, conference talks, or open-source security tooling
• Detection engineering experience
• Investigations in other cloud platforms
• Previous MSP/MSSP/MDR experience and familiarity with RMM tools

What We Offer

• Fully remote work
• Annual trip to the US for Summer Summit
• Home office setup reimbursement
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Digital allowance for personal phone and internet costs
• Home office tech stipend
• Subsidized private health insurance
• Stock options for all full-time employees
• Access to the BetterUp platform