Cybersecurity Analyst

Berkeley Research Group, LLC; Emeryville (CA); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Berkeley Research Group, LLC is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to support BRG’s security operations across cloud, identity, email, data, and endpoints. You will monitor events, coordinate remediation, and contribute to security baselines within a Zero Trust framework.

The role collaborates with IT leadership and multiple technical teams to ensure secure configurations. The analyst will work with BRG’s security providers, manage alerts, test Azure policies, and support Proo fpoint email

Qualifications

• 3+ years of cybersecurity operations, cloud security, identity security, or related role.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure security, Entra ID, AD, Defender, Sentinel, Purview.
• Hands-on familiarity with email security and phishing-response workflows (Proofpoint preferred).
• Knowledge of security baselines (NIST, CIS) and remediation tracking.
• Strong written and verbal communication for technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, investigate, document, and coordinate response to security alerts, incidents, and suspicious activity.
• Collaborate with BRG’s security providers to validate activity, track remediation, and improve workflows.
• Administer Microsoft security capabilities across Azure, Entra ID, AD, Defender, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, and Purview.
• Review Azure policy initiatives, baselines, and control exceptions; test and implement changes.
• Support identity security operations: Conditional Access, privileged access, PIM reviews, and access controls.
• Support Proofpoint email security, phishing workflows, and threat response capabilities.
• Use Tenable Cloud Security to review cloud exposure, findings, and remediation status.
• Assess security risks with AI services; support governance and inventory.”
• Investigate activity across logs; escalate significant events per incident-response process.
• Create and maintain procedures, docs, metrics, dashboards, and audit evidence.

Skills

Cybersecurity operations

Cloud security

Identity security

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Azure Security

Microsoft Entra ID

Defender for Cloud

Sentinel

Netskope

Proofpoint

Tenable Cloud Security

Job description

BRG is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Location: Remote - USA

Position Type: Full time

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Job Summary

The Cybersecurity Analyst supports BRG’s daily security operations across cloud, identity, email, data, and endpoint environments. The analyst monitors and investigates security events, supports security platform and policy administration, coordinates remediation, and contributes to security baselines and control improvements. The analyst works closely with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, Network, Service Desk, Risk and Compliance, and external security partners to protect BRG resources and support a Zero Trust approach. This position does not own or administer corporate firewalls.

Key Contacts and Working Relationships

• Partner with IT Leadership and technical teams to ensure new technologies, configurations, and changes align with BRG security standards and roadmaps.
• Work with Infrastructure, Network, Service Desk, Expert Solutions, and Corporate Information Services teams to investigate issues and apply security controls across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Coordinate with Risk and Compliance on incident response, audit evidence, security awareness, and control validation.
• Work with BRG’s managed security and technology vendors to investigate alerts, track remediation, and improve platform effectiveness.

Major Responsibilities / Job Functions

• Monitor, triage, investigate, document, and coordinate response to security alerts, incidents, tickets, and suspicious activity across Microsoft and third-party security platforms.
• Work with BRG’s managed security provider to investigate alerts, validate activity, track remediation, and improve alert quality and operational workflows.
• Administer and support Microsoft security capabilities across Azure, Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft Defender, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, and Microsoft Purview within approved role and change-control boundaries.
• Review Azure security recommendations, policies, and configuration findings; help test, document, and implement Azure Policy initiatives, security baselines, and control exceptions.
• Support identity security operations, including Conditional Access, privileged access and PIM reviews, role lifecycle activities, stale-account cleanup, authentication controls, service accounts, guest access, and privileged-group monitoring.
• Support Proofpoint email security, phishing-reporting workflows, Threat Response capabilities, account-takeover protections, security-awareness integrations, and email-policy tuning.
• Use Tenable Cloud Security and related vulnerability-management capabilities to review cloud exposure, attack paths, asset coverage, security findings, and remediation status.
• Support Netskope cloud-app and traffic-steering policies, including application discovery, policy testing, AI-application controls, exception handling, and validation of user impact.
• Assess security risks associated with generative AI and other AI-enabled services; support AI application inventory, usage monitoring, access controls, policy testing, and governance reviews.
• Investigate email, identity, endpoint, cloud, and application activity using available logs and evidence; elevate confirmed or potentially significant events through the incident-response process.
• Track vulnerabilities and security recommendations, identify the appropriate technical owner, validate remediation evidence, document accepted risks or exceptions, and report status to stakeholders.
• Create and maintain operating procedures, configuration records, support documentation, security metrics, dashboards, and evidence needed for audits and control reviews.
• Participate in change reviews and validate that cybersecurity-owned changes include appropriate testing, implementation, rollback, communication, and post-change evidence.
• Evaluate security tools and features, perform structured testing, document findings, and recommend practical improvements to security controls and operations.
• Participate in periodic risk assessments, tabletop exercises, incident-response activities, cross-training, and an on-call or escalation rotation as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Behaviors

• 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations, cloud security, identity security, security engineering, or a closely related role.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure security, Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Azure Policy, Conditional Access, PIM, Defender, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, and Purview.
• Experience interpreting and applying security baselines such as Microsoft security baselines and CIS Benchmarks, including testing, exception documentation, and remediation tracking.
• Hands-on familiarity with email security and phishing-response workflows; Proofpoint experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with cloud security posture management or CNAPP capabilities; Tenable Cloud Security experience is preferred.
• Experience with secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, or SaaS application-control platforms; Netskope policy and traffic-steering experience is preferred.
• General knowledge of AI security risks, including sensitive-data exposure, unapproved AI services, prompt and response monitoring limitations, application categorization, access control, and governance.
• Understanding of common identity and authentication concepts, including MFA, passwordless authentication, OAuth, SAML, Kerberos, privileged access, and least privilege.
• Ability to analyze alerts and logs, distinguish expected administration from suspicious activity, develop a defensible timeline, and clearly document conclusions and follow-up actions.
• Experience working with a SOC, MDR provider, or other outsourced monitoring partner.
• Familiarity with Windows, macOS, cloud platforms, enterprise SaaS, and hybrid identity environments.
• Knowledge of common security and compliance frameworks such as NIST CSF, CIS Controls, SOC 2, ISO 27001/27002, HIPAA, or HITRUST.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain risk, evidence, and recommended actions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Organized, curious, and able to manage multiple investigations and workstreams while maintaining accurate records and following change-management requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting security operations in a Microsoft-centric enterprise environment.
• Experience creating KQL queries, workbooks, metrics, or dashboards for security monitoring and reporting.
• Experience testing security controls in pilot groups before broader rollout and documenting expected impact, exceptions, and rollback considerations.
• Relevant security certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200), CompTIA Security+, CompTIA CySA+, GIAC certifications, or comparable credentials are preferred. Equivalent hands-on security operations experience will also be considered.

Salary Range: $90,000-$120,000

Candidate must be able to submit verification of his/her legal right to work in the U.S., without company sponsorship.

About BRG

BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies. Our culture centers on agility and connectivity which sets us apart and gets you ahead.

At BRG, our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence, to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe.

Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking. When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.

At BRG, we don’t just show you what’s possible. We’re built to help you make it happen.

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