Lead advanced security operations, driving security control maturity, and strengthening the organization’s overall security posture.
Compensation
competitive salary and bonuses
Responsibilities
Leads complex security incident investigations, including forensic analysis, root cause determination, and coordination of containment and recovery efforts.
Proactively identifies emerging threats, recommends mitigation strategies, and enhances detection capabilities through improved monitoring logic and alert thresholds to increase threat visibility and reduce false positives.
Provides senior-level administration, configuration, and optimization of enterprise security technologies, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, vulnerability management, email security, identity security, and cloud security solutions.
Evaluates security tool effectiveness, identifies control weaknesses, and recommends improvements to security configurations and technical safeguards aligned with organizational standards and risk tolerance.
Coordinates the enterprise vulnerability management lifecycle, including vulnerability scanning, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, validation, exception documentation, and reporting.
Requirements
Associate’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS, or related field required (Bachelor’s degree preferred)
Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts and incidents across endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and application environments.
Compensation
Salary range (but not limited to):
80,700 - 98,700
Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):
10%
Responsibilities
Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts and incidents across endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and application environments.
Perform incident response activities, including containment, eradication, and post-incident follow-up.
Conduct in-depth analysis of security events using SIEM, EDR/XDR, network monitoring, email security, and vulnerability management tools.
Correlate logs and telemetry from multiple sources to identify attack patterns, root causes, and indicators of compromise.
Identify, assess and recommend information security solutions that meet the business and security needs.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, or any combination of equivalent education and experience
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