Cybersecurity Analyst

BRG; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

BRG is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to support daily security operations across cloud, identity, email, data, and endpoints. You will monitor and investigate security events, coordinate remediation, and contribute to security baselines and control improvements.

You will work with IT leadership, Infrastructure, Network, and Risk teams to apply security controls and maintain Zero Trust objectives. A strong understanding of Azure security and MFA concepts is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in cybersecurity operations, cloud security, or related field.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure security, Entra ID, AD, Defender and Sentinel.
• Experience applying security baselines and CIS benchmarks, with testing and remediation tracking.
• Hands-on with email security and phishing-response workflows; Proofpoint preferred.
• Experience with CNAPP tools and cloud security posture management.
• Familiarity with secure web gateways and SaaS container controls (Netskope).
• Knowledge of AI security risks and governance considerations.
• Understanding of MFA, passwordless, OAuth, SAML, Kerberos, least privilege.
• Ability to analyze alerts/logs and document follow-up actions.
• Experience with SOC/MDR partnerships and external monitoring.
• Knowledge of Windows/macOS and cloud enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with NIST CSF, SOC 2, ISO 27001/27002, HIPAA/HITRUST.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, investigate, and coordinate response to security alerts and incidents across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Collaborate with managed security providers to improve alert quality and remediation workflows.
• Administer Microsoft security capabilities across Azure, Entra ID, AD, Defender, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, and Purview.
• Review Azure policy, security baselines, and control exceptions; document testing and implementation.
• Support identity security operations including CA, PIM reviews, and privileged-access management.
• Support Proofpoint email security and phishing-response workflows and threat intelligence integrations.
• Use Tenable Cloud Security to review vulnerabilities, exposure, and remediation status.
• Support Netskope cloud-app policies and traffic-steering tests and governance reviews.
• Assess AI-related security risks and governance controls; inventory AI usage and access controls.
• Investigate activity across email, identity, endpoint, cloud, and applications; escalate significant events.
• Track vulnerabilities and remediation evidence; report to stakeholders with clear timelines.
• Create and maintain security procedures, dashboards, and audit evidence.

Skills

Cybersecurity operations

Azure security

Identity security

Security baselines

Email security

CNAPP/Tenable Cloud Security

Secure web gateway/Netskope

AI security awareness

Identity concepts (MFA, SSO)

SIEM/Logs analysis

SOC/MDR collaboration

Windows/macOS/cloud platforms

Security frameworks (NIST, SOC 2, ISO

Tools

Tenable Cloud Security

Microsoft Defender/Cloud

Azure Policy

Azure AD/Entra ID

Sentinel

Purview

Proofpoint

Netskope

Job description

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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.

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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.

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