Security Operations Pro: Threat Hunting & Incident Response

Esri; Redlands (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

Esri is seeking an Enterprise Security Analyst II to join the Security Operations Center, focusing on monitoring, investigating, and responding to security events. You will apply threat intelligence and conduct threat hunting to enhance detections and response capabilities.

The role emphasizes hand-on security monitoring across endpoints, identity, network, cloud, and email, along with on-call rotation after onboarding and demonstrated familiarity with the tools and response procedures.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of cybersecurity experience with hands-on involvement in security monitoring, alert triage, and incident investigation.
• Experience analyzing endpoint, identity, network, cloud, email, and log data to identify suspicious or malicious activity.
• Working knowledge of SIEM and EDR platforms, common triage workflows, and security telemetry analysis.
• Strong understanding of networking, operating systems, identity and access concepts, cloud security fundamentals, and core security protocols.
• Working knowledge of cyber threat intelligence concepts, including indicators, threat actors, campaigns, vulnerabilities, and adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Ability to write clear investigation notes, incident records, intelligence summaries, and recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences.
• U.S. citizenship is mandatory
• Ability and willingness to obtain security clearance
• Bachelors in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related STEM degree

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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

SOC monitoring

Incident investigation

Threat intelligence

Threat hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

SIEM

EDR

Networking basics

Cloud security

On-call readiness

U.S. citizenship

Education

Bachelors in Cybersecurity, IT, CS, or related STEM

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR Platforms

PowerShell

Python

KQL

SPL

Job description

Esri is seeking an Enterprise Security Analyst II to join the Security Operations Center, focusing on monitoring, investigating, and responding to security events. You will apply threat intelligence and conduct threat hunting to enhance detections and response capabilities.

The role emphasizes hand-on security monitoring across endpoints, identity, network, cloud, and email, along with on-call rotation after onboarding and demonstrated familiarity with the tools and response procedures.