Onsite Cybersecurity Threat Analyst & Splunk Expert

Apex Systems; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 121,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Systems is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst in Denver, CO to join an enterprise security team on a 12-month contract. The role focuses on intrusion detection, alerting, and threat response with hands-on log analysis and correlation.

You will develop custom alerts, work with Splunk dashboards, and collaborate with senior leaders to triage security events and align controls with audit requirements. Onsite work four days per week is expected.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 1 year of experience with Web Applications.
• Strong background in Intrusion Analysis, with the ability to identify and interpret web and application logs from a security perspective.
• Strong Splunk skill set to analyze logs and other security events, including creating macros, alerts, and dashboards.
• Knowledge of current exploits and ability to identify them from web and event logs.
• Working knowledge of Linux, Windows, and MacOS operating systems.
• Comfortable with scripting languages and regular expressions.
• Strong knowledge of common network protocols.
• Working knowledge of enterprise Client/Server architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement custom alerts and monitoring controls to detect and mitigate threats.
• Assess new threat vectors and design and implement effective controls.
• Leverage advanced investigative skills using data correlation and log analysis tools.
• Partner with senior leaders from lines of business to triage security events and report on impacting security initiatives.
• Develop and implement processes or controls in support of audit and risk requirements.
• Use new intelligence to update existing controls to detect new threats.
• Operate independently and support others within the security team.

Skills

Web apps

Intrusion analysis

Splunk

Logs analysis

Linux

Windows

MacOS

Scripting

Networking

Client/Server

Tools

Regular expressions

Job description

Apex Systems is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst in Denver, CO to join an enterprise security team on a 12-month contract. The role focuses on intrusion detection, alerting, and threat response with hands-on log analysis and correlation.

You will develop custom alerts, work with Splunk dashboards, and collaborate with senior leaders to triage security events and align controls with audit requirements. Onsite work four days per week is expected.