Security Operations Analyst

About the role

Mintos is looking for a Security Operations Analyst to protect its rapidly growing cloud and on‑premise environments. You will join a collaborative team that monitors threats, responds to incidents, and continuously improves security tooling while supporting a culture of security awareness.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor security events, detect threats, and lead incident response activities.
• Operate and enhance security tools such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, vulnerability scanners, endpoint protection, and antivirus solutions.
• Conduct security and vulnerability testing across cloud and on‑premise systems, analyse results and produce detailed reports.
• Participate in information security audits and support compliance initiatives, including DORA readiness.
• Track remediation of vulnerabilities, risk assessments and audit findings using Jira and coordinate with stakeholders.
• Research emerging threats and recommend security enhancements to senior team members.
• Contribute to security awareness programs, training support and maintain clear documentation of processes and controls.

Required profile

• Experience in system/network management, cloud administration or security operations.
• Familiarity with key AWS services such as IAM, VPC and CloudWatch.
• Basic scripting skills (Python, Go or Bash) for log analysis and incident response.
• Strong written and spoken communication in English and Latvian.
• Ability to follow established processes while proactively identifying gaps.

Required skills

• AWS IAM
• AWS VPC
• AWS CloudWatch
• Python
• Go
• Bash
• SIEM
• IDS/IPS
• Vulnerability scanners
• Endpoint protection
• Antivirus solutions
• Jira