Senior InfoSec Analyst — Incident Response & Detection

Laveer Engineering; Cranberry Township (Butler County); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 107,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Wellness programs

401(k) with Company Match

Paid vacations and holidays

Flexible work arrangements

Educational reimbursement

Job summary

Westinghouse Electric Company in Cranberry Township, PA seeks an Information Security Analyst III to identify, investigate, contain, and help resolve security incidents while improving enterprise detection. You will translate threat intelligence into monitoring workflows and act as a senior technical resource across IT, Legal, Data Privacy, and HR, reporting to the Global Incident Response Supervisor.

The role offers a hybrid work schedule and a base salary range of $85,200 to $106,500 per year,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, information security, a related technical discipline, or equivalent education and relevant experience.
• 4+ years of cybersecurity experience in security operations, incident response, threat detection, detection engineering, threat intelligence, forensics, security automation, or related functions.
• Experience with incident response frameworks and methodologies, including NIST SP 800-61 and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Advanced experience with SIEM and SOAR platforms, security analytics, forensics, threat intelligence, and endpoint or cloud security technologies.
• Practical expertise with Microsoft security tools and applications, including Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel.
• Proficiency with one or more high-level programming or scripting languages, such as Python or PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and investigate computer security incidents observing established incident response policies, plans, and procedures, including evaluation, scoping, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident analysis.
• Analyze problematic activity reported by security technologies and partners, including IT, HR, Legal, and Data Privacy, and maintain complete, accurate investigation case records.
• Develop, validate, implement, and maintain detection use cases, analytics, alerts, reports, and dashboards in security monitoring platforms to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities.
• Translate current threat intelligence and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures into threat models, detection logic, investigation guidance, and response actions.
• Plan, test, tune, and refine detection content to improve accuracy, coverage, and operational value while reducing false positives and unnecessary analyst workload.
• Provide technical guidance to first responders and other security operations personnel during investigations and major incidents, including on-call support.
• Provide relevant, and audience-appropriate incident updates, investigation findings, risk assessments, metrics, and recommendations to partners and decision makers.
• Maintain the operational effectiveness and configuration of assigned security solutions, including Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, SIEM, SOAR, forensic, and threat intelligence technologies.
• Collaborate with security operations, threat intelligence, engineering, architecture, and teams to define requirements and improve detection and response capabilities.
• Perform other responsibilities and special projects as assigned.

Skills

Incident response

Security operations

Threat detection

Threat intelligence

Forensics

Security automation

NIST SP 800-61

MITRE ATT&CK

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Sigma

YARA

Python

PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, information security, a related technical discipline, or equivalent education and relevant experience

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Job description

Westinghouse Electric Company in Cranberry Township, PA seeks an Information Security Analyst III to identify, investigate, contain, and help resolve security incidents while improving enterprise detection. You will translate threat intelligence into monitoring workflows and act as a senior technical resource across IT, Legal, Data Privacy, and HR, reporting to the Global Incident Response Supervisor.

The role offers a hybrid work schedule and a base salary range of $85,200 to $106,500 per year,