Senior Cyber Defense Analyst — Hybrid Cloud Security & IR

Four Ways Consulting; Cambridge, Boston (MA, MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Four Ways Consulting in Cambridge/Boston, MA is seeking a Senior Cyber Defense Analyst to strengthen the security posture of a highly regulated enterprise environment. The role emphasizes advanced threat detection, threat hunting, incident response, cloud security, and cyber defense operations across enterprise, cloud, and endpoint environments.

The candidate should have hands-on experience with EDR (SentinelOne), SIEM (Splunk/Microsoft Sentinel), and IAM controls, plus experience securing Azure

Qualifications

• Experience in SOC, cyber defense, threat hunting, or incident response.
• Hands-on with SentinelOne EDR.
• Experience with Microsoft Defender platforms.
• Proficiency with Splunk and/or Microsoft Sentinel SIEM.
• Experience with ZeroFOX or threat intel platforms.
• Ability to perform threat hunting and cyber investigations.
• Knowledge of incident response methodologies and lifecycle frameworks.
• Experience securing Azure and AWS cloud environments.
• Understanding of IAM concepts and technologies.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security events across enterprise, cloud, and endpoints.
• Lead proactive threat hunting to identify malicious activity and attack patterns.
• Oversee incident investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery efforts.
• Utilize EDR, SIEM, and cloud security tools to detect and respond to threats.
• Correlate events from multiple sources to identify compromises.
• Develop remediation recommendations after security incidents.
• Collaborate with infra, app, cloud, and compliance teams to implement controls.
• Create detection rules, use cases, dashboards, and monitoring enhancements.
• Produce incident reports, forensic findings, and executive summaries.
• Support audits and regulatory compliance initiatives.
• Participate in tabletop exercises and continuous security improvement programs.

Skills

SOC Operations

Threat Hunting

Incident Response

EDR SentinelOne

Defender Security

SIEM Splunk/Microsoft Sentinel

Cloud Security

IAM

Threat Intelligence

Communication

Tools

SentinelOne

Microsoft Defender

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

ZeroFOX

Azure

AWS

Job description

Four Ways Consulting in Cambridge/Boston, MA is seeking a Senior Cyber Defense Analyst to strengthen the security posture of a highly regulated enterprise environment. The role emphasizes advanced threat detection, threat hunting, incident response, cloud security, and cyber defense operations across enterprise, cloud, and endpoint environments.

The candidate should have hands-on experience with EDR (SentinelOne), SIEM (Splunk/Microsoft Sentinel), and IAM controls, plus experience securing Azure