Remote Cybersecurity Analyst — Flexible Hours, Mentorship & Impact

DataSync Corp; Peoria (IL); Remote; USD 69,000 - 95,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Flexible hours

Mentorship program

Job summary

DataSync Corp in Peoria, IL is seeking a freelance Cybersecurity Analyst to enhance security analytics and incident response. You will collaborate with product teams and stakeholders to drive security improvements.

You will stress-test Wazuh, diagnose issues, and mentor newer hires while optimizing cryptography cost in the cloud. Compensation ranges from $69,000 to $95,000 with flexible hours and a remote-friendly team culture.

Qualifications

• Experience in cybersecurity analysis and incident response.
• Ability to surface risk and influence decisions with stakeholders.
• Mentoring or leading junior staff is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate stakeholder tradeoffs with product when timelines clash.
• Stress-test Wazuh systems and harden weaknesses.
• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools.
• Reproduce and fix recurring mentorship-related issues from field reports.
• Right-size cryptography infrastructure to reduce cloud costs.
• Sketch malware analysis architecture and discuss it in reviews.
• Mentor mid-level hires on stakeholder management practices.
• Push PKI changes safely behind feature flags for clean rollbacks.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Risk assessment

Mentoring

Team collaboration

Diplomacy

Problem solving

Tools

Wazuh

Job description

DataSync Corp in Peoria, IL is seeking a freelance Cybersecurity Analyst to enhance security analytics and incident response. You will collaborate with product teams and stakeholders to drive security improvements.

You will stress-test Wazuh, diagnose issues, and mentor newer hires while optimizing cryptography cost in the cloud. Compensation ranges from $69,000 to $95,000 with flexible hours and a remote-friendly team culture.