Job Overview
- Organization: National Telecommunication and Information Security Board (NTISB)
- Scale / Grade: PPS-8
- Job Type: Contract
- Vacancies: 2 Vacancies
- Experience: 4 Years+
- Age Limit: Max: 40 years
- Deadline: Oct 12, 2026
Experience: Minimum 4 Years of Experience, of which 2 Years of recent experience as a SOC analyst.
Age: max 40 years
(Five years’ general age relaxation has already been added to the upper age limit; no other age relaxation is admissible.)
Qualifications: ⚫ Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, or a related field. ⚫ Certifications on Incident Handling, SOC operations or offensive certifications are preferable
Job Description: ⚫ Conducting deep-dive investigations into escalated security incidents to determine the full scope of an attack. ⚫ Performing root cause analysis to understand how an adversary gained access and identifying security gaps.
Executing advanced incident response tasks including the containment, eradication, and recovery of systems. ⚫ Proactively threat hunting within the network using behavioral analytics to find hidden or persistent threats. ⚫ Analyzing malware behavior in sandbox environments to identify "Indicators of Compromise" (IoCs). ⚫ Correlating data across multiple log sources (Firewalls, EDR, Cloud logs) to reconstruct attacker movement. ⚫ Fine-tuning SIEM correlation rules and alert thresholds to improve detection accuracy and reduce noise for Tier 1. ⚫ Coordinating with IT and infrastructure teams to apply specific security patches or configuration changes. ⚫ Developing and updating automated playbooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the SOC team. Integrating external threat intelligence feeds to stay ahead of emerging attack patterns and "zero-day" exploits.
Eligibility & Qualifications
- BS Computer Science (BSCS)
- BS Software Engineering
- BS Cybersecurity
- BS Information Systems
- BS Information Technology (BSIT)
- BS Computer Engineering
- MSc Computer Science
- MS Computer Science (MSCS)
- MS Information Technology (MSIT)
- Master of Computer Science (MCS)
- BE Information Technology
- MSc Information Technology
- MS Computer Software Engineering
- BE Software Engineering
- MPhil Software Engineering
- MS Information Security
- MS Cybersecurity
- MPhil Computer Science
- MS Computer Networks
- MS Computer Systems Engineering
- MS Computer Engineering
- MPhil Information Technology
- MS Software Engineering
- BS Telecommunication
- BS Computer Systems Engineering
- MSc. Computer Engineering
- Master of Information Technology- MIT
- Msc Cybersecurity and Data governance
- BSc Software Engineering
- MS Computer and Network Security
- Bachelors of Computer Engineering
- MS Computer and Information Technology
- Bachelors of Computer Science
- BE Network Engineering
- BS Computer Networks
- BS Network & Security
- BS Information Security
- BE Computer Engineering
- MS Telecommunication & Networks
- BS Information Assurance
- BS Network Security
- BE Systems Engineering
- MS Information Assurance
- MS Cyber Forensics
- MS Network Security
- MS Information Systems
- MPhil Computer Engineering
- MPhil Telecommunication and Networks
- MS Computing
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