Cybersecurity Analyst
- Hartselle, AL, United States
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Job details
- Experience
- 2 to 4 years of hands-on experience in security operations, security analysis, or a closely related IT security role.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
What You’ll Do
Vulnerability and Exposure Management
- Run Rapid7 InsightVM scans, maintain asset coverage and scan schedules, and keep credentialed scanning healthy.
- Prioritize findings by risk and exploitability, track remediation with IT owners, and report on SLA performance.
- Validate patches and configuration fixes, and manage exceptions through our documented risk-acceptance process.
Alert Triage and Response
- Work alerts from Rapid7 InsightIDR, SentinelOne, and Microsoft Defender, and coordinate with our 24x7 SOC on escalations.
- Flag noisy or low-value detections to the engineering team so they can be tuned.
- Support incident response by handling initial triage and containment steps per our playbooks, documenting findings, and contributing to post-incident reviews.
Endpoint Security
- Handle day-to-day SentinelOne console work: policies, exclusions, device groups, and agent health.
- Investigate threats using SentinelOne Deep Visibility and Storyline data, and perform remediation and rollback when needed.
- Work with the engineering team and Intune and Defender administrators to avoid policy gaps and conflicts.
Email Security
- Handle daily Barracuda Email Protection work: quarantine management, allow and block lists, and impersonation and phishing alerts.
- Investigate reported phishing and suspicious messages, and remove malicious email from affected mailboxes.
- Pass false positive and tuning findings to the engineering team, and support security awareness efforts with phishing trends and simulation results.
Microsoft Environment
- Review Entra ID, Active Directory, and Microsoft 365 security findings, including Secure Score and CIS benchmark gaps, and apply approved changes.
- Monitor DLP and sensitivity label alerts and handle policy match reviews.
- Partner with the infrastructure team on remediation items.
Documentation and Reporting
- Write and maintain runbooks, incident playbooks, and procedures.
- Collect evidence and support audit and compliance requests.
- Produce clear metrics and status reports for IT leadership.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for security incidents.
What You Bring
- 2 to 4 years of hands-on experience in security operations, security analysis, or a closely related IT security role.
- Experience with Rapid7 (InsightVM and/or InsightIDR) or a comparable vulnerability management or SIEM platform.
- Hands-on experience with SentinelOne or another enterprise EDR such as CrowdStrike or Defender for Endpoint.
- Experience with Barracuda or another email security gateway such as Proofpoint, Mimecast, or Check Point, and a working understanding of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem: Active Directory, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Intune, and Windows Server.
- Working knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, VPN) and common attack techniques, including MITRE ATT&CK.
- Experience investigating incidents and documenting findings clearly for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Basic PowerShell scripting ability, or a willingness to learn.
- Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, IT, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with NERC CIP or other critical infrastructure compliance requirements.
- Exposure to OT/ICS environments.
- Experience with Microsoft Sentinel, KQL, or SOAR automation.
- Knowledge of NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, or CIS Controls.
- Interest in AI security and governance, including securing enterprise AI tools and managing unsanctioned AI apps.
- Certifications such as Security+, CySA+, GCIH, GSEC, SC-200, AZ-500, or CISSP (or progress toward one).
More about this job
Skills
- Cybersecurity
- Rapid7
- Incident response
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft 365
- Documentation
- Reporting
- Regulatory compliance
- Leadership
- Microsoft Windows Server
- DNS
- VPN
- MITRE ATT&CK
- Microsoft PowerShell
- Computer science
- ICS
- Security+
- CISSP