Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at VDart Inc Sacramento, CA

VDart Inc; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 82,656 - 130,872; Full time

Job summary

VDart Inc. is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst for a Sacramento, CA hybrid contract engagement. The role requires strong threat detection, incident response, and governance capabilities, with hands-on work across SIEM, EDR, and DLP tools.

You will lead investigations, analyze security logs, and collaborate with IT teams to improve the organization’s security posture while driving incidents to resolution.

Qualifications

• Experience in threat detection and incident investigations using SIEM/EDR/DLP tools.
• Ability to document incidents and provide RCA.
• Familiarity with safeguarding security posture and governance.

Responsibilities

• Threat Detection and Response: Monitor and analyze security events on SIEM/EDR/DLP platforms to identify threats.
• Incident Investigation: Conduct in-depth investigations and provide RCA.
• Escalation Handling and Team Management: Manage L1 resources and handle escalations.
• Security Log Analysis: Analyze logs to identify trends and anomalies and drive closure.
• Vulnerability Management: Perform threat and vulnerability assessments and mitigation guidance.
• Security Advisory: Provide guidance on best practices and security advisories.
• Collaboration: Work with IT and security teams to enhance security posture.
• Driving Attitude: Drive incident investigations and bridge calls.
• Documentation: Maintain records of incidents and actions for governance.
• Desirable Tool Stack: include SIEM, EDR, DLP, UEBA considerations.

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Security analytics

Collaboration

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Master's degree in relevant field (preferred)

Tools

SIEM: Splunk

EDR: CrowdStrike

EDR: Defender

EDR: SentinelOne

DLP: Forcepoint

DLP: Symantec/Proofpoint

Job description

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst job at VDart Inc. Sacramento, CA.

Role: Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Location: Sacramento, CA (Hybrid)

Type: Contract

Responsibilities

• Threat Detection and Response: Monitor and analyze security events on SIEM/EDR/DLP platforms to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities.
• Incident Investigation: Conduct in-depth investigations of security incidents and provide detailed analysis and providing RCA as well.
• Escalation Handling and Team Management: Should be able to manage the L1 resources and handle the escalations made.
• Security Log Analysis: Analyze security log data from various security devices to identify trends and anomalies and elevate them appropriately and drive them to closure.
• Vulnerability Management: Perform threat and vulnerability assessments via alerts, EASM tools to elevate and provide recommendations for mitigation.
• Security Advisory: Should be well cyber aware about security advisory services, newsletters, bulletins and should provide value adds, guidance on best practices.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other IT and security teams to enhance the organizations security posture.
• Driving Attitude: Should be able to drive the Incident investigations and bridge calls.
• Documentation: Maintain detailed records of security incidents and actions taken. Proper governance and tracking via doer checker and due diligence processes.
• Desirable Tool Stack:
• SIEM: Splunk,
• EDR: Crowdstrike, Defender, Sentinel One
• DLP: Force point, Symantec, Proof point
• UEBA: Anomalies and Pattern based alert/incident handling

Desirable Certifications

• Comptia Security Plus, CEH, AZ-500, CISSP, CISM.

Education

• UG: BCA in Any Specialization, B. Tech/B.E. in Any Specialization
• PG: MCA in Any Specialization