Security Operations Analyst

5195 EKC Advanced Electronics USA, LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

5195 EKC Advanced Electronics USA, LLC is seeking a Security Operations Analyst to monitor, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats across enterprise environments. You will work with internal teams and MSSPs to enhance monitoring, containment, and remediation capabilities.

The role requires hands-on experience in incident response, threat hunting, and security telemetry analysis, with a focus on phishing, BEC, and email protection.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, IT, CS, IS, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 to 5+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience including security operations and incident response.
• Experience with enterprise security technologies, especially within the Microsoft security ecosystem.
• Experience in co-managed SOC or MSSP operating model.
• Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Microsoft SC-200, GIAC GCIH/GCIA, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, investigate, and document cybersecurity alerts and incidents.
• Analyze security events across endpoints, identity, email, network, cloud, and data protection environments.
• Correlate telemetry to determine scope, severity, and impact of suspicious activity.
• Support containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident activities.
• Investigate phishing, BEC, malicious URLs and attachments, spoofing, and compromised accounts.
• Coordinate email and DLP remediation with stakeholders.
• Perform targeted threat hunting using available telemetry and indicators of compromise.
• Develop and execute security queries to identify suspicious activity and affected entities.
• Review investigations escalated by MSSP and coordinate follow-up actions.
• Identify opportunities to improve detection, playbooks, and security controls.
• Maintain accurate incident records and remediation documentation.

Skills

Cybersecurity experience

Incident response

SOC operations

Threat hunting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, IT, CS, IS, or related field

Tools

Microsoft security tools

Job description

Security Operations Analyst About the Role

Qnity is seeking a Security Operations Analyst to support the monitoring, investigation, and response to cybersecurity threats across the enterprise. This hands‑on role will investigate security events across endpoint, identity, email, cloud, network, and data protection environments and coordinate appropriate containment and remediation activities. The analyst will work closely with internal technology teams and managed security service providers to investigate incidents, improve security monitoring, and help protect Qnity’s users, systems, and information.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, investigate, and document cybersecurity alerts and incidents.
• Analyze security events across endpoints, identity, email, network, cloud, applications, and data protection environments.
• Correlate security telemetry to determine the scope, severity, and potential impact of suspicious activity.
• Support incident containment, remediation, recovery, and post‑incident activities.
• Investigate phishing, business email compromise, malicious URLs and attachments, spoofing, compromised accounts, and other email‑based threats.
• Coordinate email and DLP remediation activities with appropriate technical, business, Legal, Privacy, or other stakeholders.
• Perform targeted threat hunting using available security telemetry and indicators of compromise.
• Develop and execute security queries to identify suspicious activity and determine potentially affected users, accounts, endpoints, and systems.
• Review and validate investigations escalated by managed security service providers and coordinate follow‑up actions with Qnity teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve detection effectiveness, investigation processes, playbooks, and security controls.
• Maintain accurate incident records, investigation findings, remediation activities, and operational documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 to 5+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience, including security operations, incident response, SOC operations.
• Experience with enterprise security technologies is preferred, particularly within the Microsoft security ecosystem.
• Working within a co‑managed SOC or MSSP operating model.
• Working Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Relevant certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Microsoft SC-200, GIAC GCIH, GCIA, or comparable certifications.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate is a hands‑on security professional who demonstrates strong analytical judgment, takes ownership of investigations through resolution or escalation, collaborates effectively across technical and business teams, and continually looks for opportunities to improve Qnity's detection and response capabilities.

Living the Qnity Values

At Qnity, success is measured not only by what we achieve, but also by how we achieve it.

Customer: Partner with stakeholders to understand needs, solve business challenges, and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Innovation: Continuously improve processes, technologies, and ways of working.

Speed: Act with urgency, focus, and precision to move work forward and deliver results.

People: Build trusted relationships, collaborate across teams, and inspire positive change.

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Qnity offers a comprehensive pay and benefits package.

Qnity is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability or any other protected class.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to search or apply for a position, please visit our