Systems Administrator
Job Title: Systems Administrator / SOC Administrator
Location: Porto, Portugal
Remote Policy: 1 day per week on-site
Contract Type: 12-Month Extendable Contract
About the company:
Our client is a well-established organization in the financial services industry, operating globally with a strong commitment to cybersecurity, innovation, and operational resilience. With a mature Security Operations Center (SOC) structure, they are continuously evolving their cybersecurity posture through advanced tooling, automation, and secure infrastructure projects.
Job description:
As a Systems Administrator working within the cybersecurity function, you will play a key role in supporting and enhancing a variety of security tools and systems critical to the organization's ability to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber threats. You will also contribute to ongoing security transformation initiatives across cloud, automation, and data-driven detection use cases.
Responsibilities:
- Administer and support key cybersecurity platforms, including Security Information & Event Management (SIEM), Incident Response and Case Management systems, Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) tools, and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions.
- Maintain and manage a secure, segregated forensic analysis environment.
- Contribute to the integration, deployment, and lifecycle management of security tools.
- Investigate and resolve Level 2 and Level 3 technical incidents.
- Analyze root causes, implement permanent solutions, and suggest process improvements.
- Assist with log collection, parsing, enrichment, and correlation use cases.
- Support the development and deployment of detection logic, including use cases involving automation and machine learning.
- Participate in operational readiness for new tool integrations and system updates.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define requirements, manage environments, and monitor service availability
- Help ensure systems remain compliant with security, performance, and quality standards.
- Track and report on service levels to ensure alignment with agreed SLAs.
- Contribute to technical documentation, process standardization, and internal knowledge sharing.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Solid experience in Systems or SOC Administration within complex IT environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with enterprise security tools (SIEM, SOAR, EDR, incident response platforms).
- Understanding of cybersecurity operations, threat detection, and response processes.
- Familiarity with managing secure environments and conducting technical investigations.
- Competence in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation tasks.
- Exposure to machine learning or deep learning use cases in cybersecurity is a plus.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and documentation capabilities.
- Fluent in English; additional languages such as Portuguese or French are a plus.
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