SOC Analyst II: Threat Detection & Incident Response

CHAOS Industries; Washington; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k

Free daily lunch

No meeting Fridays

Unlimited PTO

Casual dress code

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is seeking a SOC Analyst II to join our Security Operations team, focusing on monitoring, triage, investigation, and response across enterprise systems, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, and collaboration environments. You will work with senior engineers, IT, and infrastructure teams to identify threats and protect sensitive data in a fast-paced startup setting.

The ideal candidate has strong threat analysis skills, hands-on security monitoring experience, and a desire to grow

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of cybersecurity, IT support, systems administration, or SOC operations
• Foundational understanding of cybersecurity concepts including networking, endpoint security, identity management, and incident response
• Familiarity with security monitoring and alert triage processes
• Experience with MSSPs
• Experience with enterprise security platforms (Microsoft GCC High, CrowdStrike, EDR/XDR, SIEMs, Azure Sentinel)
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills
• U.S. citizenship eligible for government facilities and sensitive information
• Ability to obtain additional security clearances as required by contract

Responsibilities

• Monitor and triage security alerts across enterprise systems, endpoints, cloud platforms, and networks
• Investigate suspicious activity, indicators of compromise, phishing attempts, malware detections, and unauthorized access
• Escalate validated incidents to senior analysts or engineering teams as appropriate
• Support containment, remediation, and recovery activities during incidents
• Assist with root cause analysis and incident documentation
• Assist with tuning alerting rules and reducing false positives
• Support vulnerability management and remediation tracking
• Help maintain endpoint, identity, and cloud security configurations
• Collaborate with IT, Engineering, and business teams to improve security posture

Skills

Threat analysis

Security monitoring

Incident response

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Microsoft GCC High

CrowdStrike

EDR/XDR tools

PIM/PAM tools

Azure Sentinel

Job description

CHAOS Industries is seeking a SOC Analyst II to join our Security Operations team, focusing on monitoring, triage, investigation, and response across enterprise systems, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, and collaboration environments. You will work with senior engineers, IT, and infrastructure teams to identify threats and protect sensitive data in a fast-paced startup setting.

The ideal candidate has strong threat analysis skills, hands-on security monitoring experience, and a desire to grow