Senior Security Analyst

Role overview

Investigate and respond to security incidents across complex enterprise and customer environments. As a senior member of a security operations team, you will lead investigations, distinguish actionable threats from noise, and help coordinate containment and remediation. The role includes after-hours or on-call coverage.

Responsibilities

- Monitor security systems and investigate alerts, threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents. - Lead or serve as a senior escalation point for incident response, coordinating containment and remediation with internal teams and customers. - Analyze event and log data, assess risk, and separate true threats from false positives. - Maintain security tools, including applying application upgrades and patches, and work with teammates to improve alert quality. - Gather evidence for internal and customer audits, and write clear reports about findings, impact, and recommended actions. - Create and maintain security playbooks, procedures, operational metrics, and other documentation; guide less experienced analysts.

Requirements

- At least five years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including three or more years in hands-on SOC work involving monitoring, triage, investigation, escalation, and incident response. - Experience independently handling investigations in a large enterprise, managed services, or multi-customer environment. - At least two years using Microsoft Sentinel in production for alert investigation, log analysis, incident management, detection, or monitoring. - At least two years working with Microsoft Defender technologies to investigate and respond to endpoint, identity, email, or cloud security incidents. - Familiarity with SIEM platforms and security monitoring tools. - Ability to communicate technical findings, business impact, and remediation recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, including customers. - Strong technical writing, organization, and independent prioritization skills in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote work may be available when a customer site is not required; office work is also an option. Flexible scheduling is offered. - Benefits include paid time off, health plan options, retirement plan matching, dental and vision coverage, disability and life coverage, family-forming support, paid parental leave, education assistance, wellness resources, and sabbatical leave. - The posted annual base pay range is $100,000–$125,000 for full-time work. Eligible employees may also receive a performance-based bonus and an equity appreciation award.