Lead IT Security Analyst – Incident Response & Cloud Security

Western Governors University; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 161,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Comprehensive benefits

Health savings account (HSA) & FSA

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Western Governors University seeks a lead Information Security Engineer to drive incident response, threat detection, and remediation across cloud and on-premises environments. You will shape defenses, mentor staff, and develop automated security controls while collaborating with IT, engineering, and business partners.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, deep technical expertise in threat detection, cloud resources, and security tooling. In-office in Raleigh, with travel up to 20% as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT Security, CS, Engineering, or related field

Responsibilities

• Lead complex incident response and investigation efforts with technical analysis and remediation
• Develop detection logic aligned to MITRE ATT&CK; analyze IOCs and large data sets
• Architect cloud threat analytics using log correlation, AI/ML, across AWS and other clouds
• Design and implement SOAR and security automation for config and investigation workflows
• Build security capabilities across cloud, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, data security and encryption
• Lead and mentor analysts, research emerging threats, and guide security operations

Skills

Incident response

MITRE ATT&CK

Cloud security

Scripting (Python, Bash)

SIEM content/rules

IaC (AWS/CDK/CloudFormation)

Threat hunting

Security automation (SOAR)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT Security or related field

Tools

Kali Linux

Nessus

Burp Suite

Nmap

Metasploit

Job description

Western Governors University seeks a lead Information Security Engineer to drive incident response, threat detection, and remediation across cloud and on-premises environments. You will shape defenses, mentor staff, and develop automated security controls while collaborating with IT, engineering, and business partners.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, deep technical expertise in threat detection, cloud resources, and security tooling. In-office in Raleigh, with travel up to 20% as needed.