Cybersecurity Analyst II — Remote SOC/IR

Evergen; West Lafayette (IN); Remote; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

401(k) match

Holiday pay

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Disability coverage

Parental leave

Job summary

Evergen IT Cybersecurity Analyst 2 role invites a hands-on security practitioner to join a 24/7 SOC protecting a highly regulated manufacturing environment. You will lead incident response, vulnerability management, and threat detection while collaborating with cross-functional teams to strengthen defenses and governance.

You’ll gain exposure to cloud, network, and endpoint security, contribute to security metrics, and help advance our cybersecurity maturity in a mission-driven organization

Qualifications

• 3+ years of cybersecurity or information security experience, including security operations, incident response, and collaboration with a managed SOC or MDR provider.
• Hands-on experience with threat monitoring, alert triage, vulnerability management, endpoint security, identity and access management, network security, and cloud security.
• Experience supporting audits, risk assessments, and compliance activities in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary on-site liaison for Evergen's 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC), coordinating security activities and responding to escalated threats across the enterprise.
• Investigate and validate security alerts by gathering technical and business context, identifying potential impacts, and improving the quality and effectiveness of threat detection.
• Lead hands-on response efforts, including containment, remediation, and recovery activities such as endpoint isolation, account protection, and threat mitigation.
• Partner with SOC analysts to investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, document findings, and continuously improve incident response playbooks and procedures.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity partners to enhance detection capabilities, tune security use cases, and identify opportunities to strengthen monitoring coverage.
• Support vulnerability management efforts by conducting security scans, assessing risk, prioritizing remediation activities, and tracking progress with technology owners.
• Participate in penetration testing, security assessments, and configuration reviews to strengthen defenses and reduce organizational risk.
• Help administer and optimize cybersecurity technologies, including endpoint protection, email security, logging, identity management, multifactor authentication, and privileged access controls.
• Support cybersecurity governance initiatives by helping implement security policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Gather evidence and support audits, customer assessments, risk reviews, and compliance activities within a regulated environment.
• Develop and report key cybersecurity metrics, including incident response performance, vulnerability remediation, and security program effectiveness.
• Automate routine security reporting, monitoring, and control validation activities to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Partner closely with the Cybersecurity Officer to execute strategic cybersecurity initiatives and provide security guidance to both technical and business teams.
• Promote a security-first culture by educating stakeholders and supporting continuous improvement across the organization.

Skills

Threat monitoring

Incident response

Cloud security

Endpoint security

Identity management

Network security

Threat detection

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

SIEM

MDR/ SOC tools

Endpoint protection tools

Job description

Evergen IT Cybersecurity Analyst 2 role invites a hands-on security practitioner to join a 24/7 SOC protecting a highly regulated manufacturing environment. You will lead incident response, vulnerability management, and threat detection while collaborating with cross-functional teams to strengthen defenses and governance.

You’ll gain exposure to cloud, network, and endpoint security, contribute to security metrics, and help advance our cybersecurity maturity in a mission-driven organization