Senior SOC Analyst & Threat Hunter (Remote)

Unicom Technologies INC; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Unicom Technologies INC in Louisville is seeking a Senior Security Analyst to strengthen and mature SOC detection and response across enterprise, cloud, and third-party environments. You will lead advanced alert triage, investigation, and incident analysis while partnering with incident response, IT, and engineering.

The ideal candidate is a senior individual contributor with strong investigation skills, sound judgment under pressure, and the ability to translate attacker behavior and telemetry

Qualifications

• 6 years in security operations, incident response, or threat detection with ownership of complex investigations.
• Experience triaging and investigating alerts across SIEM, EDR/XDR, identity platforms, and cloud/SaaS environments.
• Hands-on ability to query telemetry and turn findings into actionable outcomes.
• Knowledge of attacker techniques and common enterprise attack paths (identity compromise, lateral movement, persistence, exfiltration).

Responsibilities

• Performing threat-informed analysis of alerts and events, validating severity, scope, and business impact.
• Applying threat intelligence and adversary tradecraft to prioritize, contextualize, and enrich investigations.
• Identifying patterns of attacker behavior and emerging threats; translating findings into detection and response improvements.
• Conducting advanced alert triage, investigation, and escalation across endpoint, network, identity, SaaS, and cloud telemetry.
• Investigating identity, access, and configuration-related alerts (e.g., anomalous sign-ins, privilege changes, suspicious OAuth/app consent, policy changes).
• Supporting incident investigation and response activities, including containment recommendations and responder handoffs.
• Collecting, preserving, and analyzing evidence; producing clear documentation suitable for incident reviews and potential legal/compliance needs.
• Tuning detections and improving signal quality by reducing false positives, improving fidelity, and expanding meaningful coverage.
• Analyzing detection gaps and control weaknesses surfaced through investigations; partnering with control owners to drive remediation.
• Validating detection effectiveness through testing, simulation, and structured attack emulation; documenting outcomes and follow-ups.
• Contributing to post-incident reviews, lessons learned, and playbook/runbook updates.
• Driving continuous improvement of SOC processes, metrics, and operational readiness; mentoring other analysts as needed.

Skills

SOC operations

Incident response

Threat hunting

Cloud security (GCP)

Scripting/automation

Communication skills

Tools

SIEM

EDR/XDR

Identity platforms

Cloud logs (GCP)

Job description

Unicom Technologies INC in Louisville is seeking a Senior Security Analyst to strengthen and mature SOC detection and response across enterprise, cloud, and third-party environments. You will lead advanced alert triage, investigation, and incident analysis while partnering with incident response, IT, and engineering.

The ideal candidate is a senior individual contributor with strong investigation skills, sound judgment under pressure, and the ability to translate attacker behavior and telemetry