Junior Cybersecurity Analyst - Boston

Achilleion; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 25,571 - 36,420; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10 days of paid time off

11 paid federal holidays

401(k) with 4% company match

Monthly healthcare stipend

Weekly team lunches and in-office snacks

Job summary

Achilleion is seeking an entry-level Cybersecurity Analyst in Boston to join their fast-growing startup. The role emphasizes training with no prior experience required, focusing on learning under senior analysts and earning recognized certifications.

Candidates should demonstrate strong communication and resilience in a demanding environment. Benefits include paid time off, a 401(k) with a company match, and a monthly healthcare stipend. Join us to grow your career in cybersecurity!

Qualifications

• No cybersecurity experience required; will be trained on frameworks and tools.
• Must possess strong communication skills under pressure.
• Demonstrable resilience and ability to handle challenging environments.

Responsibilities

• Work directly under senior analysts to gain exposure to operations.
• Deliver exceptional service to business clients.
• Manage accounts and connect client needs with internal teams.
• Support projects across cybersecurity and compliance.
• Learn the field and earn industry-recognized certifications.

Skills

Relentless follow-through

Sharp written communication

Comfort with ambiguity

Intellectual curiosity

High personal standards

Resilience

Job description

Agency Cybersecurity is fast growing venture back startup that provides best-in-class cybersecurity and compliance. Our software and services simplify complex compliance frameworks including SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and others, empowering businesses to scale securely and confidently. We're backed by top tier investors like Y Combinator and have offices in NYC, Boston, Richmond, and London.

Position:

Hourly, full-time, on-site in our Boston office

Experience level:

Entry-level — no cybersecurity background required

Schedule:

Mandatory overtime; average ~45 hours/week

Compensation:

$22.5 per hour, plus overtime

Read this before you apply

This is one of the most competitive entry-level roles in our industry, and one of the most demanding. The interview process is rigorous. The job itself is more so. We're looking for people who want to be pushed — in their learning, in their work ethic, and in what it means to be part of a championship-caliber team.

If you make it through and stay, the trajectory is real. Analysts who put in 3+ years in this role routinely move into full Cybersecurity Analyst positions with the certifications, client exposure, and operational fluency that take most people a decade to build elsewhere.

If "challenging work, high standards, and a steep curve" reads as a warning, this isn't the role for you. If it reads as what you've been looking for, keep going.

What you'll actually do

You’ll sit at the intersection of our technology, our customers, and our internal operations. Day to day, that looks like:

• Working directly under senior analysts and getting unfiltered exposure to how a high-growth cybersecurity team operates
• Delivering exceptional service to our business clients and their key contacts
• Managing accounts and acting as the connective tissue between client needs and internal teams
• Supporting projects across cybersecurity, compliance, IT, and business operations
• Learning the field from the ground up and earning industry‑recognized certifications along the way

No cybersecurity experience required. We will teach you the frameworks, the tools, the client posture, and the certifications.

What we look for

We hire for traits, not résumés. The strongest candidates can point to concrete evidence of these traits somewhere in their lives — prior work, academics, athletics, military service, side projects, or anywhere else they've been genuinely tested:

• Relentless follow-through. You finish what you start. When something falls through the cracks, it doesn't fall through yours.
• Sharp written communication. You can write clearly under pressure — to a client, a teammate, or an auditor — and you understand that in this job, your writing is your work.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You can operate when the answer isn't in a manual. You ask good questions, take a position, and move.
• Intellectual curiosity. You actually enjoy learning hard, technical material. You'd rather understand something deeply than fake your way through it.
• High personal standards. You hold the bar yourself before anyone else has to hold it for you.
• Resilience. Long days, hard feedback, and the occasional bad week don't break you. You recover and keep going.

If you played a varsity sport, led a team, served in the military, finished a demanding degree, started something, or built something nobody asked you to build — tell us. We read all of that as signal. Claims about who you are matter less to us than evidence of who you've been when it was hard.

Benefits

• 10 days of paid time off
• 11 paid federal holidays
• 401(k) with 4% company match
• Monthly healthcare stipend
• Weekly team lunches and in‑office snacks