Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Do you want to join a growing team of top professionals who invest time and effort into teaching, career growth, and cultivating employees into the next generation of IT experts? You've come to the right place. Span is an international IT company specializing in high-quality information systems design and management services, as well as tech support for customers and enterprises. We're constantly improving, advancing, and adopting new trends, new skills, and new expertise, giving our employees virtually endless opportunities for professional development.  

As a Senior Cyber Security Analyst, you will be at the forefront of detecting, investigating, and responding to cyber threats for a diverse portfolio of international and Croatian clients. From leading advanced incident investigations and forensic analyses to enhancing detection capabilities and threat hunting programs, you will play a critical role in strengthening our clients' security posture. If you're passionate about security operations, incident response, and helping teams grow through knowledge sharing and mentorship, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll do:

• Lead advanced investigations of security incidents, including complex and high-severity threats.
• Coordinate and actively participate in incident response activities, digital forensics investigations, and cyber crisis management
• Perform host, network, memory, and cloud forensic analysis for supporting containment, eradication, and recovery efforts
• Investigate and analyze security events, logs, and telemetry across Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud environments
• Design, develop, and optimize use cases, detection rules, and automation workflows across SIEM, SOAR, and XDR platforms
• Conduct threat hunting engagements and proactively identify suspicious activity, security weaknesses, and emerging threats within customer environments
• Analyze threat trends, perform malware triage, and recommend improvements to security architecture, detection capabilities, and response processes
• Lead technical discussions and client communication during security incidents, providing recommendations, status updates, and guidance throughout the response lifecycle
• Mentor and support security analysts while contributing to the development of operational procedures, playbooks, and best practices within SOC and MDR environments
• Prepare technical reports, findings, and recommendations for clients, technical stakeholders, and management

What we expect:

• 5+ years of experience in cyber security, security operations, incident response, digital forensics, or a related field
• Proven ability to independently lead complex security investigations and incident response activities
• Hands-on experience with digital forensics, threat hunting, malware analysis, and cloud-based investigations
• Experience working with SIEM, SOAR, XDR, EDR, and log analysis platforms
• Familiarity with various DFIR tools 
• Strong understanding of cyber security frameworks, best practices, and security standards
• Excellent analytical, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills in high-pressure situations
• A passion for continuous learning and staying ahead of emerging cyber threats and industry trends
• Knowledge of both English and Croatian is a must

Skill that will bring you extra points:

• Professional certificates in field of offensive security (GCFA, GREM, GCTI, GCIH, OSCP+, or similar certificates)
• Experience with technical lectures on conferences
• Blog writing, creating content related to work

What's in it for you:

• Competitive salary according to your experience
• A business phone of your choice
• InHouse testing center- we are giving you an option of gaining professional certificates
• Mentor - no matter how much experience you've got, we will provide you with an adequate mentor
• Regular feedback on your performance and personalized career development plan
• Possibility to earn different types of bonuses
• Subvention of Multisport card or PassSport- not only brain workout is important
• Minimum of 25 vacation days
• Complete health checks- adjusted for men and women
• Psychological counseling- we care about your well-being
• Lunch and transportation compensations
• Benefits for children of employees