IT Security Analyst - India
About the Role
The IT Security Analyst protects the organization's information assets by operating and improving our security controls. The role owns security operations across Microsoft Defender, leads incident response, maintains ISO 27001 documentation, and drives identity, access and patch management.Your Impact
- SOC & Alert Management: Monitor, triage and resolve alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR and Sentinel; tune detections to reduce false positives and improve response times.
- Incident Response: Lead incidents end-to-end (containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned); maintain the Incident Response Plan and playbooks.
- ISO 27001: Maintain ISMS policies, risk register and audit evidence; support internal and external audits and close findings.
- IAM & Access Reviews: Administer Entra ID (Conditional Access, MFA); run quarterly user and privileged access reviews and enforce least privilege.
- PAM: Operate the Privileged Access Management solution, including PIM and break-glass accounts.
- Patch & Vulnerability Management: Own vulnerability remediation and monthly patch cycles; report compliance against SLAs.
- Cost Optimisation: Manage security licences and Sentinel log ingestion to optimise cost without reducing coverage.
What You Bring
- 1–3 years' experience in a security operations or security analyst role.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, Sentinel and Entra ID.
- Experience leading security incidents and producing incident reports.
- Working knowledge of ISO 27001 controls and audit processes.
- Experience with IAM, access reviews, PAM and patch management.
- Proficiency with KQL and PowerShell or Python.
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Compensation
India: ₹5L–9L per year (CTC) Philippines: ₱45k–60k per month (₱540k–720k per year)Why You'll Love Working Here
At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.
You'll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You'll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.
About Appen
Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.
1-3 years security operations experience; hands-on with Microsoft Defender XDR, Sentinel, Entra ID; incident response; ISO 27001 knowledge; IAM, PAM, patch management; KQL and PowerShell or Python.
Key Responsibilities
- monitoring security alerts
- leading incident response
- managing access reviews
Skills & Tools
Microsoft Defender XDR, Sentinel, Entra ID, KQL, PowerShell, Python
Job Details
- Category: Information Technology
- Seniority: Entry Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — India or Philippines
- Salary: INR 500,000 – 900,000 / year
- Languages: English
About Appen
A leader in AI training data, providing human-generated data to train, fine-tune, and evaluate AI models. — Industry: Information Technology