Security Operations Analyst II - Incident Response

NextGenEnergyJobs; Vienna, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) and profit-sharing

Paid holidays

Vacation leave

Job summary

NextGenEnergyJobs is seeking an Enterprise Security Analyst II to join our hands-on SOC team in Virginia. You will monitor alerts across endpoints, identity, network, cloud and email environments, triage incidents, and support full incident response lifecycle from investigation to closure.

The role requires 2+ years of cybersecurity experience, strong telemetry analysis, and the ability to communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. U.S.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of cybersecurity experience in security monitoring, alert triage, and incident investigation.
• Experience analyzing endpoint, identity, network, cloud, email, and log data.
• Knowledge of SIEM and EDR platforms.
• Understanding of networking, OS, identity concepts, cloud security.
• Ability to write investigation notes and recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences.
• U.S. citizenship is mandatory.
• Ability to obtain security clearance.
• Experience converting threat intelligence into detections, hunts, playbooks, response actions, or mitigation recommendations.
• Familiarity with scripting and query languages (PowerShell, Python, KQL, SPL).

Responsibilities

• Security Operations and Incident Response
• Monitor and manage the SOC alert queue across endpoint, identity, network, email, cloud, and log monitoring platforms
• Independently triage and investigate security alerts and events, distinguishing confirmed threats from benign activity using available evidence and telemetry
• Support the full incident lifecycle, including investigation, escalation, containment support, remediation follow-up, documentation, and closure
• Escalate incidents with clear evidence, impact assessment, and recommended next steps
• Apply playbooks and runbooks while identifying opportunities to improve alert quality, response consistency, automation, and analyst enablement
• Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting
• Analyze relevant threat intelligence to identify threats, campaigns, vulnerabilities, and adversary behaviors that may affect the organization
• Enrich alerts and investigations with context about threat actors, malware, indicators, vulnerabilities, and attack techniques
• Assist with threat hunts across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and application telemetry
• Use MITRE ATT&CK to support investigations, communicate adversary behavior, and identify detection gaps
• Partner with security engineers and analysts to turn relevant intelligence into detections, hunts, watchlists, playbooks, blocking recommendations, or response improvements

Skills

Cybersecurity experience

Incident investigation

Threat hunting

Telemetry analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related STEM

Tools

SIEM platforms

EDR platforms

SOAR familiarity

PowerShell scripting

Job description

NextGenEnergyJobs is seeking an Enterprise Security Analyst II to join our hands-on SOC team in Virginia. You will monitor alerts across endpoints, identity, network, cloud and email environments, triage incidents, and support full incident response lifecycle from investigation to closure.

The role requires 2+ years of cybersecurity experience, strong telemetry analysis, and the ability to communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. U.S.