Senior SOC Cybersecurity Analyst — Detection & Response

Women In Science; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City, UT, seeks a Cybersecurity Analyst Tier 3 (Security Operations Center) to lead complex investigations, drive detection engineering, automation, and continuous improvement within UIT's Information Security team.

The role blends investigative expertise with technical capabilities to strengthen organizational security, reduce response times, and improve detection fidelity across on-premises and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with extensive directly related work experience.
• 8–12 years of experience for higher levels (IV–VI) or 6–12 years with a master’s degree, per posted levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end incident response lifecycle across endpoint, network, cloud, and identity domains.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for Tier 2 analysts; provide technical direction.
• Perform digital forensics to support root cause analysis and post-incident actions.
• Design and maintain detection logic across SIEM, EDR, and cloud platforms with high-fidelity alerting.
• Develop automation (SOAR) to improve triage, data enrichment, and response efficiency.

Skills

Operational security

Threat hunting

SIEM SOAR

Cloud security

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Master’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

Job description

The University of Utah, located in Salt Lake City, UT, seeks a Cybersecurity Analyst Tier 3 (Security Operations Center) to lead complex investigations, drive detection engineering, automation, and continuous improvement within UIT's Information Security team.

The role blends investigative expertise with technical capabilities to strengthen organizational security, reduce response times, and improve detection fidelity across on-premises and cloud environments.