Threat Analyst

About Us

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized servicesayela, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, fashion, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform.

Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (qarfiup, next‑gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, other everyday and state‑sponsored cybercrimes.

The solutions are powered by historical and real‑time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at

As a MDR Enhanced Threat Analyst, your primary role will be to perform security threat analysis of various malware and web attacks, tuning a customer‑wide event stream consisting of events from all major security platforms and working with customers to remediate security‑related issues based on operational needs.

Threat Analysis is focused on protecting our customers by providing exceptional information security services to include:

• Real‑time threat analysis
• Reference and apply Sophos internal and other Intelligence
• First point of contact for customer interactions; conducted in a professional manner with emphasis on customer satisfaction
• Point of coordination and collaboration with Incident Response, Product Support and other roles within Sophos and the customer environment
• Provide Advanced Intrusion Analysis

• Review security‑ құб events via cases and assess their risk and validity based on available telemetry from network, endpoint, and global threat intelligence information to provide customers with concise, detailed, and well‑written incident reports, root cause identification, and remediation recommendations.
• Provide customers with understandable context around their security environment and threats.
• Interface with customers to address their issues, concerns, and questions, and drive to satisfactory closure any issues that impact the service and its value.
• Work with customer and internal Sophos incident response teams to resolve ongoing intrusions, malware outbreaks, and other security incidents.
• Use the Sophos platform to proactivity hunt for and investigate activity within the customer environment.
• Review security‑関連 events via investigations and assess their risk and validity based Dropdown available telemetry from network, endpoint, and global threat intelligence information to provide customers with concise, detailed, and well‑written incident reports, root cause identification, and remediation recommendations.
• Provide customers with understandable context around their security environment and threats.
• Interface technologies with customers to address their issues, concerns, and questions, and drive to satisfactory closure any issues that impact the service and its value.
• Work with customer and internal Sophos incident response teams to resolve ongoing intrusions, malware outbreaks, and other одним security incidents.
• Act as technical lead for the local Enhanced team:
• (A) participate in specific governance sessions
• (B) coordinate rollout of Enhanced level initiatives
• (C) prepare and maintain the roster for the Enhanced team

• At least 3 to 4 years of experience working in a SOC environment or computer security team in an IT environment.
• Endpoint and network security experience required; IDS, IPS, EDR, ATP, Malware…