Remote Cloud Security Operations Analyst II

SMX; Juneau (AK); Remote; USD 73,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

SMX is seeking a Cloud Security Operations Analyst to support its security operations team responsible for the managed security services of customers' cloud infrastructures. The role involves guiding stakeholders, developing monitoring solutions, and mitigating threats across varied environments.

The candidate will lead teams, continually learn, and collaborate with customer stakeholders while leveraging endpoint security tools.

Qualifications

• Ability to lead and coordinate efforts in small teams.
• Ability and willingness to continually learn and enhance capabilities.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing from a technical perspective.
• Ability to collaborate with customer stakeholders regarding security capabilities versus threat actor techniques.
• Demonstrable understanding of common enterprise applications, infrastructure, and security technologies.
• Ability to analyze emerging cyber security threats and applicability to customer environments.
• Proactive, self-motivated target driven for service delivery.
• Ability to work within a team.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and continually improve system and network security monitoring capabilities and procedures.
• Monitor, triage, and notify 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 writing

Customer collaboration

Threat analysis

Scripting experience

Incident response

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or Computer Science

Tools

Endpoint security tools

Job description

SMX is seeking a Cloud Security Operations Analyst to support its security operations team responsible for the managed security services of customers' cloud infrastructures. The role involves guiding stakeholders, developing monitoring solutions, and mitigating threats across varied environments.

The candidate will lead teams, continually learn, and collaborate with customer stakeholders while leveraging endpoint security tools.