Senior Cyber Defense Analyst | Hybrid Work

Scorpion Therapeutics; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work two days from home

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Cyber Defense professional to lead investigations, incident response, threat hunting, and continuous improvement of security operations. You will work across endpoint, identity, email, cloud, and data security technologies to detect, contain, and remediate threats.

You will mentor analysts, own key Cyber Defense capabilities, and enhance DLP/data security monitoring while coordinating with security, privacy, legal, and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Cybersecurity/IT (or related) or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years relevant cybersecurity experience (hands-on security ops, incident response, detection, or hunting).
• Ability to independently lead complex incident investigations.
• Hands-on SIEM and EDR/XDR experience.
• Strong understanding of endpoint, identity, network, email, and cloud attack techniques.
• Working knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID security.
• Strong analytical/troubleshooting/documentation/communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigations, containment, remediation, and post-incident reviews across endpoint, identity, email, cloud, and network.
• Investigate suspicious activity using SIEM/EDR/XDR, identity, and email telemetry.
• Create incident timelines; determine scope and root cause; document findings and recommendations.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting to improve detection and response.
• Mentor analysts and act as escalation point.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

SIEM/EDR

Investigation

Mentoring

Data security/DLP

Education

Bachelor’s in Cybersecurity/IT

Tools

CrowdStrike Falcon

Splunk

Cortex XSOAR

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Entra ID

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Scorpion Therapeutics is seeking a Senior Cyber Defense professional to lead investigations, incident response, threat hunting, and continuous improvement of security operations. You will work across endpoint, identity, email, cloud, and data security technologies to detect, contain, and remediate threats.

You will mentor analysts, own key Cyber Defense capabilities, and enhance DLP/data security monitoring while coordinating with security, privacy, legal, and engineering teams.