SOC Analyst

Clear Capital; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 114,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit-sharing bonus

401(k) plan with employer match

Comprehensive health/dental/vision

Paid time off and holidays

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Clear Capital is seeking a SOC Analyst to protect on‑premises and cloud environments through security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability analysis, and advisory support.

The role focuses on investigating alerts, analyzing logs, and correlating activity across platforms while helping improve the organization’s security posture and governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 5 years security experience including SOC duties (threat detection, incident response, investigations).
• Experience investigating real security events using SIEM, EDR/XDR, firewall, identity, endpoint, cloud, or network telemetry.
• Strong understanding of incident response, threat hunting, log analysis, event correlation, detection tuning, and security investigation workflows.
• Experience reviewing vulnerability findings, assessing risk, prioritizing remediation, and advising system owners.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts from SIEM, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, firewall, cloud, identity, and endpoint security platforms.
• Perform incident response and threat hunting activities, including alert triage, investigation, root cause analysis, containment recommendations, documentation, and follow-up actions.
• Correlate events, analyze logs, tune detections, reduce false positives, and identify visibility gaps across security tools.
• Analyze endpoint, authentication, firewall, VPN, cloud, and network activity for indicators of compromise and suspicious behavior.
• Advise on vulnerability management, prioritize remediation, and validate closure with system owners.

Skills

Security monitoring

Incident response

Threat hunting

Vulnerability analysis

Security advisory support

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IT

Tools

SIEM

EDR/XDR

IDS/IPS

Firewall

Cloud security

Identity security

Endpoint security

Job description

As a SOC Analyst, your primary responsibility will be to help protect our organization’s on-premises and cloud environments through security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability analysis, and security advisory support.

This role is best suited for a candidate with prior Security Operations Center (SOC) experience who is comfortable investigating alerts, analyzing logs, correlating activity across multiple security platforms, and supporting response to security incidents.

In addition to hands-on detection and response work, this role serves in an advisory capacity for vulnerability management, system hardening, and security platform administration. The analyst will help assess risk, prioritize remediation, recommend secure configurations, identify visibility gaps, and partner with system, infrastructure, cloud, and application owners to improve the organization’s security posture.

What You Will Work On

• Monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts from SIEM, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, firewall, cloud, identity, and endpoint security platforms.
• Perform incident response and threat hunting activities, including alert triage, investigation, root cause analysis, containment recommendations, documentation, and follow-up actions.
• Use SIEM and related security tools to correlate events, analyze log data, tune detections, reduce false positives, improve alert fidelity, and identify visibility gaps.
• Analyze endpoint, authentication, firewall, VPN, cloud, and network activity to identify indicators of compromise, credential misuse, lateral movement, persistence, and other suspicious behavior.
• Advise on vulnerability management by reviewing findings, assessing technical risk, prioritizing remediation, validating closure, and helping system owners understand exposure and business impact.
• Provide practical security guidance on system hardening, secure configuration, platform tuning, and control improvement based on CIS Benchmarks, vendor guidance, and organizational standards.
• Play an active role in the design and execution of infrastructure initiatives and participate in technical and non-technical projects to ensure an evolving adherence to industry best practices and compliance with corporate security policies and customer standards.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Who We Are Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 5 years security experience including a deep proficiency of SOC related duties and responsibilities, including but not limited to, threat detection, incident response, security event investigations.
• Demonstrated experience investigating real security events using SIEM, EDR/XDR, firewall, identity, endpoint, cloud, or network telemetry.
• Strong understanding of incident response, threat hunting, attacker tactics, log analysis, event correlation, detection tuning, and security investigation workflows.
• Experience reviewing vulnerability findings, assessing technical risk, prioritizing remediation, and advising system owners using vulnerability management platforms.
• Working knowledge of Windows, macOS, Linux, Active Directory, cloud environments, networking, endpoint security, CIS Benchmarks, NIST, CIS Controls, RMF, MITRE ATT&CK, and common protocols such as DNS, HTTP/S, LDAP, SMB, Kerberos, SAML, and OAuth.
• Relevant technical security certification required. Preferred certifications include CompTIA CySA+, CompTIA CASP+, GIAC GCIH, GIAC GCIA, GIAC GSOC, GIAC GMON, or equivalent hands‑on SOC, incident response, threat hunting, or blue‑team certification.

What You Can Expect

• Compensation: The base salary for this position ranges from $113,800 to $139,000 annually, depending on your location, experience, and qualifications. Additional compensation offerings include company profit‑sharing bonus program, communication stipends, and referral bonuses.
• Inclusive benefits package offering: Comprehensive medical, dental, and company paid vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan with employer match, voluntary life and AD&D insurance options, voluntary supplemental insurances for accident, critical illness, and legal services, paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays, employee assistance and wellness programs, company paid short term disability coverage, company contributions to health saving funds (with participation in the high deductible health plan. We offer company paid access to Galileo for virtual primary care and Rula for virtual mental health resources.
• Through our Anniversary Program, we celebrate the meaningful milestones and long tenure that reflect how much we value your contributions and commitment to our team.
• Career and skill development resources to help advance your career and personal growth.
• A mission‑driven environment where your work makes a measurable impact on the real estate industry.

What We Value

• Wherever it Leads, Whatever it Takes - No matter how remote, complex, or unexpected. Our commitment never wavers.
• Hire NICE people - Skills can be taught but character shines through. We seek those who bring integrity, kindness, and grit.
• Lift others up - We lead with empathy and strive to improve the lives of those around us.
• Sweat the details - Excellence lives in the little things. Getting it just so is how we make a big impact.
• Raise the bar - We don't settle for industry standards, we redefine them.

About Us

Clear Capital is a national real estate analytics, data solutions and valuation technology company with a simple purpose: to build confidence in real estate decisions to strengthen communities and improve lives. Our goal is to provide customers with a complete understanding of nearly every U.S. property through our AI-driven analytics, data solutions, valuation services and automated appraisal review platforms. Our commitment to excellence - wherever it leads, whatever it takes - is embodied by our team members across our brands and has remained steadfast in this pursuit since our first order in 2001.

Clear Capital is an equal opportunity employer.

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