Senior Tier 3 SOC Analyst - Threat Hunting (Onsite RTP)

Piper Companies; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Sick leave

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Tier 3 SOC Analyst to join a leading cybersecurity and defense technology organization in RTP, North Carolina. This is a long-term, open-ended contract position requiring onsite work five days a week and an active Secret Clearance.

The role focuses on senior-level threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, and playbook development within a high-security SOC. You will mentor junior analysts and present findings to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance.
• 5+ years of experience as a SOC Analyst.
• Experience operating at a Tier 3 SOC level.
• Strong hands-on experience with Splunk (correlation searches, dashboards).
• Experience building detections, alerts, and SOC playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Lead advanced threat hunting activities to identify malicious activity not seen by traditional alerting.
• Investigate complex security incidents, perform root cause analysis, and provide remediation recommendations.
• Develop, tune, and maintain detection rules and use cases in Splunk.
• Create and enhance SOC playbooks, workflows, and incident response procedures.
• Analyze network, endpoint, cloud, and log data to identify IOC and TTPs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional security teams to improve monitoring coverage.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

Threat intelligence

MITRE ATT&CK

Adversary tactics

Tools

Splunk

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a Tier 3 SOC Analyst to join a leading cybersecurity and defense technology organization in RTP, North Carolina. This is a long-term, open-ended contract position requiring onsite work five days a week and an active Secret Clearance.

The role focuses on senior-level threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, and playbook development within a high-security SOC. You will mentor junior analysts and present findings to stakeholders.