Remote Cybersecurity Incident Response Analyst

Centric Consulting; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and Hybrid Work

Time Off When You Need It

Benefits That Flex

Professional Development

Job summary

Centric Consulting seeks an experienced Cybersecurity Analyst to provide hands‑on security operations, incident investigation, and technical support across client organizations. You will monitor and respond to security alerts, investigate suspicious activity, support incident‑response processes, and guide security reviews for technology initiatives.

Join a culture that values collaboration and excellence as you help strengthen defenses and shape security awareness and policies across engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional cybersecurity experience in security operations or related roles.
• Hands-on with monitoring security alerts and responding to incidents.
• Experience reviewing logs and documenting investigations.
• Knowledge of endpoint/cloud security, vulnerability management, and audits.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and respond to day-to-day security alerts and escalations; including CrowdStrike notifications.
• Investigate suspicious activity, validate false positives, document findings and resolutions.
• Provide hands-on support for cybersecurity incidents; review logs and evidence to support investigations.
• Perform root-cause analysis and assess organizational impact of security events.
• Support incident-response processes: escalation, containment, remediation, and follow-up.
• Be the technical resource for security issues requiring deeper expertise than the IT team has.
• Support detection engineering and security analytics using CrowdStrike Foundry, NG-SIEM, CQL, and KQL.
• Identify vulnerabilities and collaborate on remediation activities with technical teams.

Skills

Security operations

Incident investigation

Log analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

CrowdStrike Falcon/OverWatch

CrowdStrike Foundry

NG-SIEM

CQL

KQL

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Job description

Centric Consulting seeks an experienced Cybersecurity Analyst to provide hands‑on security operations, incident investigation, and technical support across client organizations. You will monitor and respond to security alerts, investigate suspicious activity, support incident‑response processes, and guide security reviews for technology initiatives.

Join a culture that values collaboration and excellence as you help strengthen defenses and shape security awareness and policies across engagements.