Sr SOC Analyst

ASM Global•Frisco, TX

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior SOC Analyst is responsible for detection, triage, and response operations across our enterprise. This role blends hands-on incident handling with detection engineering, playbook development, and response automation efforts. This role delivers on alerts and case management, drives resilient detection strategies, and leads hunt efforts that proactively surface threats before they become incidents.

Requirements

Proven experience in a SOC or equivalent detection & response function and is passionate about high-fidelity detections, repeatable playbooks, and measurable outcomes.
3-5 years in Security Operations, Detection & Response, or Incident Handling (SOC experience required).
Hands-on experience with SIEM (e.g., SecOps, Sentinel, QRadar), EDR (e.g., CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne), and SOAR platforms
Proficient in authoring detections, rule tuning, enrichment pipelines, and alert routing.
Demonstrated capability in building and executing IR playbooks and containment/eradication plans.
Experience conducting post-incident reviews and RCAs, and delivering corrective action plans to engineering teams.
Scripting skills (Python/PowerShell/Bash) for automation, enrichment, and data wrangling.
Excellent written communication for case documentation and executive-ready incident summaries.

Nice To Haves

Turns noisy telemetry into actionable signals
Is detail-oriented and disciplined in organizing information.
Ships repeatable playbooks, maintains clean runbooks, and closes feedback loops.
Ready to mentor other analysts, set standards for communication and delivery for the SOC
Comfortable presenting complex technical information to the CISO or other executive leadership

Responsibilities

Build and operationalize SOC playbooks and escalation workflows.
Lead alert triage, enrichment, and false-positive suppression.
Author detection requirements; write and tune SIEM rules.
Develop hunt hypotheses; lead hunt programs using advanced elemetry and signals intelligence.
Design detection strategies across the kill chain; drive enterprise detection strategy.
Execute incidents end-to-end: containment/eradication, documentation, and communication.
Conduct post-incident reviews and drive remediation and control improvements.
Encourage industry collaboration; embed resilient detection engineering practices.
Advocate and implement automation-first incident response.