SOC Analyst
About The Position
As a SOC Analyst, your primary responsibility will be to help protect our organization’s on-premises and cloud environments through security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability analysis, and security advisory support. This role is best suited for a candidate with prior Security Operations Center (SOC) experience who is comfortable investigating alerts, analyzing logs, correlating activity across multiple security platforms, and supporting response to security incidents. In addition to hands-on detection and response work, this role serves in an advisory capacity for vulnerability management, system hardening, and security platform administration. The analyst will help assess risk, prioritize remediation, recommend secure configurations, identify visibility gaps, and partner with system, infrastructure, cloud, and application owners to improve the organization’s security posture.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum of 5 years security experience including a deep proficiency of SOC related duties and responsibilities, including but not limited to, threat detection, incident response, security event investigations.
- Demonstrated experience investigating real security events using SIEM, EDR/XDR, firewall, identity, endpoint, cloud, or network telemetry.
- Strong understanding of incident response, threat hunting, attacker tactics, log analysis, event correlation, detection tuning, and security investigation workflows.
- Experience reviewing vulnerability findings, assessing technical risk, prioritizing remediation, and advising system owners using vulnerability management platforms.
- Working knowledge of Windows, macOS, Linux, Active Directory, cloud environments, networking, endpoint security, CIS Benchmarks, NIST, CIS Controls, RMF, MITRE ATT&CK, and common protocols such as DNS, HTTP/S, LDAP, SMB, Kerberos, SAML, and OAuth.
- Relevant technical security certification required.
Nice To Haves
- Preferred certifications include CompTIA CySA+, CompTIA CASP+, GIAC GCIH, GIAC GCIA, GIAC GSOC, GIAC GMON, or equivalent hands-on SOC, incident response, threat hunting, or blue-team certification.
Responsibilities
- Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts from SIEM, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, firewall, cloud, identity, and endpoint security platforms.
- Perform incident response and threat hunting activities, including alert triage, investigation, root cause analysis, containment recommendations, documentation, and follow-up actions.
- Use SIEM and related security tools to correlate events, analyze log data, tune detections, reduce false positives, improve alert fidelity, and identify visibility gaps.
- Analyze endpoint, authentication, firewall, VPN, cloud, and network activity to identify indicators of compromise, credential misuse, lateral movement, persistence, and other suspicious behavior.
- Advise on vulnerability management by reviewing findings, assessing technical risk, prioritizing remediation, validating closure, and helping system owners understand exposure and business impact.
- Provide practical security guidance on system hardening, secure configuration, platform tuning, and control improvement based on CIS Benchmarks, vendor guidance, and organizational standards.
- Play an active role in the design and execution of infrastructure initiatives and participate in technical and non-technical projects to ensure an evolving adherence to industry best practices and compliance with corporate security policies and customer standards.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Company profit-sharing bonus program
- Communication stipends
- Referral bonuses
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and company paid vision insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance options
- Voluntary supplemental insurances for accident, critical illness, and legal services
- Paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays
- Employee assistance and wellness programs
- Company paid short term disability coverage
- Company contributions to health saving funds (with participation in the high deductible health plan)
- Company paid access to Galileo for virtual primary care
- Company paid access to Rula for virtual mental health resources.
- Career and skill development resources
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
