Job Description
We are looking for an experienced
Westlake, TX.
The selected candidate will serve as a key onshore Security Operations resource, leading advanced security investigations, threat hunting, detection engineering, and incident response activities. This is a
Job Type: Full-Time | Onsite Location: Westlake, Texas, USA
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Senior SOC Analyst / Lead SOC Analyst with strong hands-on expertise in Exabeam SIEM and UEBA to support a strategic customer environment in Westlake, TX. The selected candidate will serve as a key onshore Security Operations resource, leading advanced security investigations, threat hunting, detection engineering, and incident response activities. This is a customer-facing role requiring regular interaction with senior security stakeholders, including the customer's CISO organization
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts and incidents using Exabeam SIEM and UEBA.
- Lead advanced security investigations, including root cause analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident reviews.
- Serve as the primary SOC point of contact for the customer.
- Act as Incident Responder and Incident Commander during high-priority security incidents.
- Develop, tune, and optimize Exabeam correlation rules, behavioral analytics, dashboards, and detection use cases.
- Conduct proactive threat hunting using security telemetry, UEBA insights, and threat intelligence.
- Leverage Anomali threat intelligence to enrich investigations and improve detection capabilities.
- Map security detections and investigations to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Collaborate with onshore/offshore SOC teams and infrastructure, network, cloud, and application teams.
- Prepare technical and executive-level incident reports, threat trend analysis, and SOC operational metrics.
- Provide incident briefings and operational updates to customer security leadership.
Required Skills & Experience
- 4+ years of core SOC experience.
- Mandatory hands-on experience with Exabeam SIEM and UEBA.
- Strong experience in:
- Security Monitoring
- Incident Response
- Threat Hunting
- Detection Engineering
- Security Event Correlation
- Log Analysis
- Threat Intelligence
- MITRE ATT&CK
- IOC/IOA Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis
- Experience developing and tuning security detection rules and use cases.
- Strong communication and customer-facing skills.
- Experience coordinating security incidents across multiple technical teams.
Preferred Skills
- Anomali Threat Intelligence
- Experience supporting large enterprise or public-sector environments.
- Experience working with distributed/onshore-offshore SOC teams.
- Relevant cybersecurity certifications.
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Customer & Leadership Expectations
- Serve as the onshore face of the SOC during U.S. business hours.
- Build strong relationships with customer security leadership and operational teams.
- Communicate effectively with the customer's CISO organization.
- Lead incident communications and coordinate response activities during major cybersecurity events.
- Provide regular operational and security updates to stakeholders.
Work Environmen
- Full-Time
- Onsite – Westlake, TX
- U.S. business-hours support from the Westlake office.
- Follow-the-sun SOC operating model with after-hours support from the offshore India SOC team.
- Participation in an on-call rotation for critical security incidents.
- Collaboration with both onshore and offshore SOC personnel.
- Occasional travel to the customer site, approximately 30 minutes from the Westlake office, for high-priority incidents, monthly operational reviews, and quarterly governance meetings.
Mandatory Requirement
U.S. Citizenship is mandatory.
Candidates Must Also Have
- Hands-on Exabeam SIEM & UEBA experience
- Minimum 4 years of SOC experience
- Willingness to work onsite in Westlake, TX
- Availability to support U.S. business hours
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a seasoned SOC professional with deep Exabeam expertise who can independently manage complex security investigations, lead incident response activities, perform threat hunting, enhance detection capabilities, and confidently engage with senior customer stakeholders.
Skills: ueba,exabeam,soc