Junior Security Analyst

As a Junior Security Analyst, you are an essential first line of defense within our Security Operations Center (SOC). Your primary mission is to monitor, analyze, and triage security alerts, ensuring that potential threats are identified quickly, accurately categorized, and escalated appropriately. In this role, you develop a strong foundation in security operations by working with SIEM tools, alerting systems, and standardized investigation procedures. You collaborate closely with senior analysts, incident responders, and automation engineers to maintain operational excellence and protect customer environments.

Join our team and defend the digital future with us!

Your tasks.

• Monitor & Triage: Continuously monitor security alerts and events across customer environments
• Analyze & Classify: Perform initial analysis to distinguish false positives from genuine security incidents
• Escalate Effectively: Document findings and escalate validated threats following defined SOC procedures
• Investigation: Execute standard playbooks and contribute to improving alert quality through feedback
• Support SOC Operations: Contribute to maintaining high operational quality and SLA compliance, We are happy to invite you to a trial day, where you can demonstrate your skills in practice. At the same time, you will have the chance to get to know the team and the working environment.
• Final decision You will receive the final decision and a potential offer within 2-3 weeks after your trial day.

• Completed IT apprenticeship or university degree with a focus on cybersecurity
• Ideally, first professional experience in cybersecurity
• Solid understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals and common attack types (e.g. phishing, malware, ransomware)
• Good knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, VPNs)
• Strong analytical skills with a structured and detail-oriented working style
• Ability to stay calm and focused in a fast-paced, alert-driven SOC environment
• Flexibility and willingness to work in a shift-based operation
• Proficiency in German (French is a strong advantage), with clear written and verbal communication skills

Swiss Post Cybersecurity provides security solutions to protect digital assets and data, all developed and operated in Switzerland. With about 150 employees, we support more than 350 customers in Europe. We are headquartered in Aarau, with offices in Morges and Luxembourg.