Remote Cybersecurity Analyst: Threat Detection & IR

Remote Jobs; New York (NY); Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Remote Jobs is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to threats across the organization's IT environment, with hands-on use of SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, incident response, and security monitoring.

The role emphasizes incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability remediation, and collaboration with IT, network, cloud, and infrastructure teams during security incidents. Cloud security basics and industry certifications are valued.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with SIEM, endpoint security, vulnerability management, incident response, and security monitoring.
• Experience with cloud security monitoring in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework, IOC, TTPs, and threat intelligence.
• Basic scripting knowledge in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Understanding of EDR technologies and threat hunting principles.
• Experience with security controls and audit/compliance activities.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security alerts and events using SIEM platforms and investigate incidents.
• Analyze logs from firewalls, endpoints, servers, applications, and cloud services.
• Coordinate incident response, triage, and root-cause analysis.
• Create incident reports, security metrics, and investigations documentation.
• Support vulnerability assessments and remediation activities.
• Collaborate with IT, network, cloud, and infrastructure teams during incidents.
• Stay updated on emerging threats and security trends.

Skills

SIEM tools

SOC processes

Incident response

Threat detection

Networking concepts

EDR (Defender/CrowdStrike/SentinelOne)

Scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash)

Cloud security basics

Vulnerability management

Threat intelligence

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

IBM QRadar

Tenable

Qualys

Rapid7

Microsoft Defender

CrowdStrike

SentinelOne

Azure

AWS

GCP

ServiceNow

Jira

MISP

Recorded Future

Palo Alto

Fortinet

Cisco

VirusTotal

Job description

Remote Jobs is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to threats across the organization's IT environment, with hands-on use of SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, incident response, and security monitoring.

The role emphasizes incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability remediation, and collaboration with IT, network, cloud, and infrastructure teams during security incidents. Cloud security basics and industry certifications are valued.