Campus Cybersecurity Associate: Threat Detection & Secure Coding

Jobtailor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a cybersecurity analyst to monitor security events, triage incidents, and support secure engineering practices. You will collaborate with software teams to embed security in the SDLC and analyze threats using AI-enabled tools.

We value foundational knowledge across security domains, scripting interest, and strong communication. You'll contribute to documentation, remediation tracking, and risk reduction across cloud and enterprise services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, computer engineering, engineering, or other technical field is required.
• Foundational knowledge of cybersecurity, information security, application security, network security, cloud security, or technology risk concepts.
• Foundational knowledge of network protocols, security fundamentals, IAM, data privacy/protection, or secure software development concepts.
• Interest in scripting or automation using languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
• Strong communication, collaboration, analytical thinking, discretion, attention to detail, and learning agility.
• Employment eligibility to work in the United States; visa sponsorship not provided.
• Preferred: graduation date between Dec 2026 and Jun 2027.
• Preferred: experience in cybersecurity, AI, ML, cloud, data, networking, or risk.
• Preferred: familiarity with security monitoring, threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response, IAM, data security.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security systems and events to identify threats and vulnerabilities.
• Triage and investigate security or operational issues to determine root causes, impacts, and mitigation strategies.
• Support security activities across network, endpoint, identity, access management, application and cloud security.
• Assist with security documentation, assessment findings, remediation tracking, reporting, and control implementation.
• Collaborate with software development and product teams to integrate security into the SDLC and promote secure coding practices.
• Research emerging cyber threats, AI-enabled security risks, and control approaches.
• Use AI-enabled cybersecurity tools for threat detection, analysis, documentation, and investigation, validating outputs before escalation.
• Support security control implementation and monitoring for cloud, AI-enabled, or enterprise services.
• Apply structured prompt design techniques when using AI agent-enabled security tools.
• Collaborate across cybersecurity, engineering, product, risk, operations, and business teams to reduce enterprise risk.

Skills

Scripting / Automation

Strong communication

Collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity / related technical field

Tools

AI-Enabled cybersecurity tools

Security monitoring platforms

Automation tools

Incident response tools

Endpoint protection solutions

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a cybersecurity analyst to monitor security events, triage incidents, and support secure engineering practices. You will collaborate with software teams to embed security in the SDLC and analyze threats using AI-enabled tools.

We value foundational knowledge across security domains, scripting interest, and strong communication. You'll contribute to documentation, remediation tracking, and risk reduction across cloud and enterprise services.