Onsite Austin Network Security Analyst - 12-Month Project

Vitaver & Associates, Inc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vitaver & Associates, Inc. seeks a Network Security Analyst for an onsite, 12-month project in Austin, TX. This temporary assignment requires 100% presence at the client site with no telecommuting. Start ASAP with a 12-month duration and potential extensions.

Ideal candidates have extensive experience in SIEM, threat intel, and security query languages (KQL, SPL), and can develop detection rules, dashboards, and playbooks to support investigations and reporting. This is a hands-on security role.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR, NDR.
• 7 years of experience with security log collection and management.
• 7 years of threat intelligence concepts.
• 7 years of writing security queries (KQL, SPL).
• 7 years in SIEM platform/architecture support.
• 7 years in detection engineering methodology.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security alerts, logs, network events and threat intel feeds.
• Analyze suspicious activity, network behavior, malware indicators and SIEM events.
• Conduct incident triage, investigation, escalation and containment coordination.
• Develop and maintain detection rules, dashboards, alerts and playbooks.
• Support threat hunting using KQL, SPL, packet analysis and telemetry.
• Assist with vulnerability, risk, and control assessments for network security.
• Document findings, prepare incident reports and communicate to security leadership.

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR

XDR

NDR

Log collection

KQL

SPL

SIEM architecture

Detection engineering

Job description

Vitaver & Associates, Inc. seeks a Network Security Analyst for an onsite, 12-month project in Austin, TX. This temporary assignment requires 100% presence at the client site with no telecommuting. Start ASAP with a 12-month duration and potential extensions.

Ideal candidates have extensive experience in SIEM, threat intel, and security query languages (KQL, SPL), and can develop detection rules, dashboards, and playbooks to support investigations and reporting. This is a hands-on security role.