Remote Cloud Security Operations Analyst

SMX; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 73,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

SMX seeks a Cloud Security Operations Analyst to support our Security Operations team responsible for managed security services. You will guide clients in evaluating cybersecurity posture and help develop monitoring solutions against threats.

Responsibilities include expanding monitoring capabilities, triaging incidents, tuning sensors, applying endpoint security policies, and producing regular reports. This remote role supports a Herndon, VA based team.

Qualifications

• 4 year degree focused on Cybersecurity or Computer Science.
• 2+ years in cyber security or cloud security.
• Must be able to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve security monitoring capabilities and procedures.
• Monitor, triage, and notify our clients of potential security incidents and tune sensors and queries to reduce false positives
• Implement endpoint security agent policies and rules to meet defensive objectives
• Support operational threat analysis based upon log correlation and endpoint security tools
• Support contingency and incident response activities
• Develop monthly and quarterly reports based upon system and network monitoring and alerting capabilities
• Recommend improvements; maintain/monitor production and non-production systems to ensure customer data is protected from unauthorized access
• Write knowledge base documents to improve operations, SOP and contribute to overall organization improvements

Skills

Team leadership

Continuous learning

Technical communication

Security monitoring

Threat analysis

Cloud security

Customer collaboration

Endpoint security

Incident response

Scripting

Public Trust clearance

Education

4 year degree in Cybersecurity or Computer Science

Tools

Unix

Linux

Windows

Virtualization

Security tools

Job description

SMX seeks a Cloud Security Operations Analyst to support our Security Operations team responsible for managed security services. You will guide clients in evaluating cybersecurity posture and help develop monitoring solutions against threats.

Responsibilities include expanding monitoring capabilities, triaging incidents, tuning sensors, applying endpoint security policies, and producing regular reports. This remote role supports a Herndon, VA based team.