Cybersecurity Analyst

1. About Our Client:

The organization operates within the cybersecurity sector, addressing the critical need to protect enterprise systems, data, and users from evolving security threats. It focuses on monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to security events to reduce risk across its operations. The organization collaborates closely with IT, legal, compliance, and business stakeholders to enhance defenses and implement preventive controls.

2. About the Opportunity:

The Cybersecurity Analyst role is responsible for safeguarding enterprise systems and data by managing security events and incidents. This position plays a key role in analyzing complex alerts, improving security defenses, and driving preventive measures. The role operates with autonomy and works cross-functionally to reduce organizational risk. It offers a fully remote work arrangement with travel required to company locations as necessary.

3. Responsibilities:

• Monitor SIEM and EDR tools; triage alerts, contain threats, and conduct root-cause analysis

• Lead incident response playbooks and coordinate post-incident reviews

• Run vulnerability scans, validate findings, prioritize risk-based remediation, and track closure

• Collaborate with infrastructure and application teams on patch management

• Enforce MFA, least privilege, and privileged access reviews; support endpoint hardening

• Tune security tools and maintain alerting rules to improve detection accuracy

• Support updates to firewall, proxy, email security, and zero-trust policies

• Map controls to security frameworks, assist with audits, and maintain security policies

• Participate in third-party risk assessments and vendor security reviews

• Deliver targeted user training and phishing simulations

• Maintain incident response documentation, architecture diagrams, and security metrics

• Produce leadership reports including KPIs such as MTTD/MTTR and patch compliance

4. Requirements:

• 3 to 5 years of experience in cybersecurity, SOC, incident response, or related roles

• Hands-on experience with SIEM (e.g., Splunk, Sentinel), EDR (e.g., CrowdStrike, Defender for Endpoint), vulnerability management (e.g., Tenable, Qualys), MFA/IdP, and endpoint hardening

• Strong understanding of networking, Windows/Linux systems, identity/access controls, and email/web security gateways

• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to work independently

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)

• Certifications such as Security+, CySA+, GSEC, SSCP; advanced certifications like CISSP or CISM are a plus

• Experience with cloud security (M365/Azure, AWS), zero-trust, and scripting/automation (PowerShell, Python)

5. Pay Range and Compensation Package:

• The pay range and compensation package for this role will be determined based on the candidate’s experience, skills, and other relevant factors.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Equal Opportunity Statement: Our client is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.

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