Cyber Analyst Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Typically requires a bachelors degree in a related discipline and two or more years of progressive professional experience in cyber security or a related field.
• Equivalent professional experience may be substituted in lieu of education.
• 3–5 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience preferred.
• Some understanding of security practices and threat landscapes.
• Quickly adopts new tools and contributes to process improvement.
• Effective communicator with end users and technical teams.
• Capable of resolving moderately complex technical issues.
• Works well independently and collaboratively.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

• GSEC, CEH, CySA+, or equivalent intermediate certification.
• Experience in Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) technologies
• Experienced in some of the following: Python, Powershell, Java, Bash, KQL/SQL
• Relevant: AWS Solutions Architect – Associate, Microsoft Azure Administrator, CompTIA Cloud+, Cisco CCNA, Palo Alto, M365 Security.
• Effective communicator, collaborative team player, and adaptable under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Performs network observability, threat detection, security metrics reporting, and automation-driven operational workflows to maintain continuous visibility into the organization’s security posture and enable rapid identification and response to security events.
• Implement and integrate enterprise security technologies, ensuring security policies are effectively enforced across hybrid environments.
• Analyze policy effectiveness, recommend policy adjustments.
• Ensures that security policies remain enforced across security systems and services as part of operational security responsibilities.
• Leverage networks observability data and security telemetry to support threat detection, validate policy effectiveness, and produce actionable metrics for reporting for operational and executive visibility.
• Advise internal teams on security control best practices, aligning security solutions with business needs.
• Provide data-driven consulting, supported by metrics and threat intel to improve decision making.
• Monitor patch compliance, troubleshoot patch-related security issues.
• Develop scripts and automation to streamline security solution deployments, focusing on segmentation and VPN automation.
• Expand workflow observability and metrics reporting pipelines to measure solution deployment effectiveness and security impact.
• Optimize security tools for better efficiency and integration.
• Maintain and manage deployed security systems such as firewalls, VPNs, and segmentation controls, ensuring continued security enforcement and policy compliance.
• Optimize enterprise security enforcement technologies, ensuring efficiency and seamless integration.
• Support the design and implementation of security enforcement technologies.
• Integrates network observability frameworks and threat detection capabilities into deployed systems and provide performance, risk, and compliance visibility.
• Support operational security teams by ensuring all security technologies are correctly integrated and aligned with enforcement policies.
• Create and advance automation workflows that improve operational efficiency and incident response effectiveness.
• Mentor other analysts and engineers.
• Contribute to process improvements.