Junior Cybersecurity Analyst - Threat Monitoring & Response

Oxley Enterprises, Inc.; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 72,571 - 95,543; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Life Insurance

Disability coverage

401(k) plan

Job summary

Oxley Enterprises, Inc. seeks a Junior Cybersecurity Specialist to support incident response, vulnerability management, and threat monitoring for a federal IT security program in Alexandria, VA.

The role provides day-to-day monitoring, vulnerability scans, and remediation tasks, with preference for candidates having 2–3 years in security operations and experience with SIEM tools, ServiceNow/JIRA, and Tenable.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of vulnerability scanning, remediation, and incident response.
• Experience with SIEM and Endpoint Protection tools.
• Experience identifying threats, log analysis, and deployment of precautionary measures.
• Experience maintaining technical SOPs.
• Experience documenting remediation of vulnerabilities found during scans.
• Knowledge of vulnerability management and scanning operations (e.g., Tenable).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience supporting a federal agency (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Monitors security alerts and executes vulnerability scans and remediation tasks daily.
• Identifies potential threats through log review and preliminary analysis.
• Supports deployment of precautionary measures against malicious code.
• Assists in reviewing cyber incident tickets in ServiceNow and JIRA, flagging duplicates or false positives.
• Supports investigation of equipment loss incidents for potential data compromise.
• Executes vulnerability scans using tools such as Tenable and documents remediation activities.
• Reviews audit logs and reports, flagging critical and high vulnerabilities for escalation.
• Supports tracking of remediation efforts.
• Supports monitoring of employee user activity through insider threat detection tools.
• Assists in collecting and cataloging data to identify potentially indicative behavior.
• Supports the Cybersecurity Analyst in maintaining insider threat‑related scripts and reporting metrics.

Skills

Vulnerability scanning

Incident response

Log analysis

SOP maintenance

Threat monitoring

Verbal and written communication

Federal agency experience (preferred)

Education

High School diploma

Tools

Tenable

ServiceNow

JIRA

Job description

Oxley Enterprises, Inc. seeks a Junior Cybersecurity Specialist to support incident response, vulnerability management, and threat monitoring for a federal IT security program in Alexandria, VA.

The role provides day-to-day monitoring, vulnerability scans, and remediation tasks, with preference for candidates having 2–3 years in security operations and experience with SIEM tools, ServiceNow/JIRA, and Tenable.