SRA’s mission is to level up every day to protect our clients and their customers. This begins with our team members and their experience. SRA prides itself on maintaining a culture where team members have a shared sense of support and belonging, consistent with our It’s Personal company value. At SRA, we prioritize transparent career pathing, varied DEI programming and community groups, competitive benefits including mental health support, and an emphasis on a sustainable, healthy, and engaging work culture. SRA has twice been named a Best Place to Work by the Philadelphia Business Journal.
These Essential Functions, Requirements, and Skills are guidelines. If you are a candidate who does not meet this exact job description but can demonstrate excellent organization, attention to detail, professionalism, flexibility, and self-direction in your professional background, we hope you apply. SRA values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, and veterans to apply.
Summary/Objective
The CyberSOC Co-Op will be part of Security Risk Advisors’ CyberSOC Practice. This role will be involved in the day-to-day, 24x7, operations of the SOC. This is an outstanding opportunity to work with a wide variety of tool sets and various client organizations.
Requirements
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Continuously monitor and triage security alerts across endpoint, network, identity, and cloud telemetry.
- Investigate alerts to determine severity, scope, and whether activity is benign, suspicious, or malicious; escalate per documented procedures.
- Perform initial incident response support activities such as evidence collection, timeline development, and basic containment recommendations under supervision.
- Use SIEM, EDR, NDR/NSM, and SOAR platforms to detect, investigate, and respond to threats; examples include Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM), CrowdStrike Falcon or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (EDR).
- Leverage threat intelligence and common frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK) to enrich investigations and communicate attacker behavior clearly.
- Thoroughly document work in case management systems, including investigation steps taken, evidence reviewed, decisions made, and recommended next actions.
- Communicate status and findings to internal leadership and clients with professionalism and clarity (written and verbal).
- Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying recurring false positives/noisy alerts and providing feedback for tuning and playbook updates.
- Maintain proficiency through required training, labs, and knowledge sharing.
- Protect organization’s value by keeping information confidential.
Supervisory Responsibility
Not Applicable.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment, and all co-ops are expected to work in the office. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. This is a largely sedentary role.
Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply and email [email protected] with any questions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable disabled individuals to perform the essential functions of this role.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time temporary co-op position with 40 working hours expected weekly, typically worked over five consecutive days. New hires may be assigned to any of our three daily shifts (early morning, day, or night) and will work a schedule that includes either Saturday or Sunday. Shifts are assigned based on current coverage needs and resource geolocation. Once assigned, you can expect a consistent shift week to week.
Co-ops are expected to work in-person at their assigned office 4 out of 5 days per week unless otherwise permitted by their supervisor.
Travel
Not Applicable.
Required Education and Experience
Punctuality and timely attendance to external client and internal stakeholder needs.
- A demonstrated passion for technology.
- Work effectively as part of a team, yet function well with independent responsibilities.
- Experience or coursework around incident investigation and forensics, information security and computer networking.
- Interest in taking the initiative for personal growth and development.
- Flexibility to accommodate changing schedules of client and project needs and willingness to work extended hours when needed.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a high level of professionalism.
- Other skills/competencies: creative problem solving, attention to detail, coordination, reporting, team work, motivation, decision making, information analysis.
Preferred Qualifications and Experience
- Coursework, labs, internship, or work experience in one or more of: incident investigation, digital forensics fundamentals, information security, systems administration, or computer networking.
- Familiarity with common log sources and security concepts (e.g., authentication logs, Windows event logs, DNS, HTTP, email security).
- Comfort learning new tools and following documented processes; strong attention to detail and case documentation habits.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a high level of professionalism in client-facing environments.
- Ability to work effectively on a team while owning independent tasks and meeting deadlines.
- Interest in automation/scripting (e.g., PowerShell or Python)
- Security certifications (e.g., Security+, Network+,).
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Security Risk Advisors is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination or harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at SRA are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, disability, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or any similar category protected by law.
Benefits
€600.00 placement remuneration per week (paid monthly). Usual taxes and social welfare deductions shall apply.
Mental Health Services: SRA has partnered with BetterHelp to provide SRA employees with free mental health support. BetterHelp connects individuals with licensed therapists for chat, video, and phone sessions.
Paid lunch break is included.
All shifts include coffee breaks and time away from screens.