Threat Analyst 2 - German Speaking

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 services, 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, network, 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 (ITDR), 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 every day 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 www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

As a Threat Analyst - Tier II on our Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team, you will provide best-in-class monitoring, detection, and response services to proactively defend customer environments before attacks prevail. You will work alongside and contribute to a team of cyber threat hunters, incident response analysts, engineers, and ethical hackers by using enterprise, log analysis and endpoint collection systems to facilitate investigations, identification, and neutralization of cyber threats.

Main Duties

Investigate and analyze logs and security-related events via Sophos tooling

Handle escalations from Tier I Threat Analysts - guide / advise on investigation handling

Onboard and train new Threat Analysts

Create cases, track and follow up with clients through threat neutralization

Communicate and document findings to various customer audiences including technical and executive teams

Follow up with customers through to issue resolution and drive continuous improvement by providing detailed recommendations to minimize risk in customer environments

Acknowledge and satisfy inbound customer requests and interact with customers through various mediums (Email, Phone, Ticket)

Collaborate and assist with core security and threat response teams

Actively research emerging Indicators of Compromise/Attack, exploits and vulnerabilities

Conduct threat hunting to identify potential threats throughout the MDR customer base

Participate