Principal Security Operations Analyst- West Coast

Huntress

5h•Remote

About The Position

Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference. Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service. We protect 4M+ endpoints and 7M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting. Huntress is looking for a Principal Security Operations Center Analyst based in the United States to join our quickly growing team. In this role, you will triage, investigate, respond to, and remediate intrusions daily. You’ll be surrounded by passionate individuals who are mission-driven to help protect companies worldwide from cyberattacks. This person will also mentor junior team members, allowing them to grow individually and as a team. The Huntress Security Operations Center is an elite team that wakes up daily to combat threat actors. You will have daily opportunities to progress your analysis skills while being at the forefront of what’s happening in the wild. With the chance to work on various incidents alongside a skilled team, you’ll have the opportunity to accelerate your career and skills, too.

Requirements

6+ years experience in a SOC, Incident Response, or Forensics role
Ability to explain possible complex alerts/events in a non-complex way, both written and verbal
Proven mentoring experience and skills to junior team members, helping them to grow individually and as a team
Understanding of Malware Analysis (Configuration of isolated Malware Analysis VM, Identification of File Formats, Basic Static & Dynamic analysis)
Demonstrated experience with Windows, Linux and/or macOS as an attack surface
Strong understanding and experience with Threat Actor Tools and techniques: (MITRE ATT&CK Framework, PowerShell & Command Prompt Terminals, WMIC, Scheduled Tasks, SCM, Windows Domain and host Enumeration Techniques, Basic Lateral Movement Techniques, Basic Persistence Mechanisms, Basic Defense Evasion Techniques, other offensive/Red Team TTPs)
Strong experience with Windows Administration or Enterprise Domain Administration and upkeep (Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell, Windows Server Update Service, and Domain Trusts)
Strong experience with M365/Cloud attack techniques
Demonstrated equivalent of self-guided study experience or Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, System Administration, or cybersecurity

Nice To Haves

Experience with scripting languages (such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, PHP, JavaScript, or Ruby)
Demonstrated experience on platforms like HackTheBox, TryHackMe, Blue Team Labs Online, etc.
Participation in cybersecurity competitions such as Capture the Flag, the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, etc.
Familiarity with MSP tools such as RMMs
Previous experience in an MSP/MSSP/MDR role

Responsibilities

Function as the lead liaison between the SOC and other Product and Research teams
Help build automation to help reduce the workload on the SOC
Own and complete investigative objectives associated with multi-host intrusions without assistance
Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts coming in from the Huntress platform
Perform tactical forensic timelining and analysis to determine the root cause of attacks, where possible, and provide remediations needed to remove the threat
Understand and perform advanced malware analysis as part of investigating systems and identities
Investigate suspicious Microsoft M365 activity and provide appropriate remediations
Assist in escalations from the product support team for threat-related and SOC-relevant questions
Assist our SOC Support team by engaging with customers via video/phone to explain or describe activity observed by the SOC when needed
Contribute to detection efforts by helping to create or request net new detections, as well as tuning current detections
Provide technical mentorship to more junior team members
Contribute regularly to external-facing Huntress content such as blogs, webinars, presentations, and speaking engagements