Email Hygiene Analyst – Cybersecurity

SRS Distribution - McKinney; McKinney (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Medical, Dental and Vision benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Job summary

SRS Distribution - McKinney is seeking an Email Hygiene Analyst to protect the organization’s email environment by monitoring, analyzing, and responding to email-based threats. You will manage Proofpoint and Abnormal Security to identify threats, investigate suspicious messages, and reduce risk.

Responsibilities include monitoring platforms, investigating phishing and BEC, and tuning security policies to minimize false positives. Collaboration with SOC, IAM, and other teams is required.

Qualifications

• Experience protecting email environments and analyzing threats.
• Ability to investigate phishing, business email compromise and malware.
• Track record of reducing organizational risk through email security controls.

Responsibilities

• Monitor email security platforms, alerts, quarantines, abuse mailboxes, and user-submitted phishing.
• Investigate suspected phishing, BEC, malware, spam and impersonation.
• Analyze headers, sender reputation, authentication results, URLs and attachments to assess risk.

Skills

Email security monitoring

Threat analysis

Phishing investigations

Incident response

Tools

Proofpoint

Abnormal Security

Microsoft 365 security

Job description

The Email Hygiene Analyst is responsible for protecting the organization’s email environment by monitoring, analyzing, and responding to email-based threats, including phishing, business email compromise, malware, spam, impersonation, and fraudulent communications. This role operates within the Cybersecurity team and manages email security technologies such as Proofpoint and Abnormal Security to identify threats, investigate suspicious messages, and reduce organizational risk.

Key responsibilities include:

• Monitor email security platforms, alerts, quarantines, abuse mailboxes, and user-reported phishing submissions.
• Investigate suspected phishing, business email compromise, malware, spam, impersonation, and account takeover activity.
• Analyze email headers, sender reputation, authentication results, URLs, attachments, domains, and message content to determine risk.
• Search for and remediate malicious messages across affected user mailboxes.
• Block malicious senders, domains, URLs, attachments, and other indicators of compromise.
• Administer and tune Proofpoint, Abnormal Security, and related email protection policies to improve detection while minimizing false positives.
• Review quarantined messages and determine whether messages should be released, blocked, or escalated.
• Investigate user-reported phishing messages and provide timely disposition and feedback.
• Support phishing simulations, security awareness initiatives, and targeted education for users affected by email threats.
• Monitor SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and other email authentication controls to identify spoofing risks and configuration issues.
• Assist with investigations involving compromised accounts, suspicious forwarding rules, unusual mailbox activity, and unauthorized email access.
• Coordinate with the Security Operations Center, Identity and Access Management, Incident Response, Microsoft 365, Legal, Human Resources, and other business teams during investigations.
• Document investigation findings, remediation actions, recurring attack patterns, and lessons learned.
• Create and maintain standard operating procedures, response playbooks, block lists, allow lists, and email security documentation.
• Track email security metrics, including message volume, blocked threats, phishing activity, user reporting rates, false positives, remediation actions, and emerging attack trends.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive investigation, containment, and reporting activities.
• Support email security projects, platform upgrades, policy changes, mergers and acquisitions, and onboarding of new domains or business units.
• Stay informed of emerging email attack techniques and recommend improvements to strengthen the organization’s email security posture.

The Email Hygiene Analyst must demonstrate strong analytical skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to communicate technical findings clearly to both technical teams and business users.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

The Email Hygiene Analyst is responsible for protecting the organization’s email environment by monitoring, analyzing, and responding to email-based threats, including phishing, business email compromise, malware, spam, impersonation, and fraudulent communications. This role operates within the Cybersecurity team and manages email security technologies such as Proofpoint and Abnormal Security to identify threats, investigate suspicious messages, and reduce organizational risk.

Key responsibilities include:

• Monitor email security platforms, alerts, quarantines, abuse mailboxes, and user-reported phishing submissions.
• Investigate suspected phishing, business email compromise, malware, spam, impersonation, and account takeover activity.
• Analyze email headers, sender reputation, authentication results, URLs, attachments, domains, and message content to determine risk.
• Search for and remediate malicious messages across affected user mailboxes.
• Block malicious senders, domains, URLs, attachments, and other indicators of compromise.
• Administer and tune Proofpoint, Abnormal Security, and related email protection policies to improve detection while minimizing false positives.
• Review quarantined messages and determine whether messages should be released, blocked, or escalated.
• Investigate user-reported phishing messages and provide timely disposition and feedback.
• Support phishing simulations, security awareness initiatives, and targeted education for users affected by email threats.
• Monitor SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and other email authentication controls to identify spoofing risks and configuration issues.
• Assist with investigations involving compromised accounts, suspicious forwarding rules, unusual mailbox activity, and unauthorized email access.
• Coordinate with the Security Operations Center, Identity and Access Management, Incident Response, Microsoft 365, Legal, Human Resources, and other business teams during investigations.
• Document investigation findings, remediation actions, recurring attack patterns, and lessons learned.
• Create and maintain standard operating procedures, response playbooks, block lists, allow lists, and email security documentation.
• Track email security metrics, including message volume, blocked threats, phishing activity, user reporting rates, false positives, remediation actions, and emerging attack trends.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive investigation, containment, and reporting activities.
• Support email security projects, platform upgrades, policy changes, mergers and acquisitions, and onboarding of new domains or business units.
• Stay informed of emerging email attack techniques and recommend improvements to strengthen the organization’s email security posture.

The Email Hygiene Analyst must demonstrate strong analytical skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to communicate technical findings clearly to both technical teams and business users.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Job Location: SRS Distribution - McKinney 7440 State Highway 121 McKinney, TX 75070-3104

As an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer SRS Distribution Inc., including all its subsidiaries, provides job opportunities to qualified individuals without regard to actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, citizenship status, uniform service, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, or any other characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local EEO laws.

If you are an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require a reasonable accommodation in applying for any posted position, please contact Human Resources at US: 855.556.3221, or by email to: [e-mail] with the nature of your accommodation request and include the Business name, location and title of the job opening. Please allow one (1) business day for a reply.

All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background check and drug screen, as permitted by law.

Competitive weekly/bi-weekly pay, discretionary bonuses, 401(k) with company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off (vacation, sick, volunteer, holidays, birthday, floating), medical/dental/vision, flexible spending accounts, company-paid life and short-term disability, plus optional long-term disability, and additional life insurance. All benefits subject to eligibility.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries for all team members paid weekly
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with company matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Paid Vacation, Sick Time, Volunteer Day, Holidays, Birthday, and Floating Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance Program
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Flexible and Dependent Care Spending Accounts
• Company paid Life insurance and Short-Term Disability
• Additional Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability also offered
• Mental, Physical and Emotional Well-Being Programs for Employees and Families
• Wellness Program and Safety Program with Bonuses for our Drivers
• Employee Referral Bonus Program