SOC Analyst - TS/SCI with Equity & Aerospace Impact

Outsiders Fund; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

PTO

401(k)

Parental leave

Lunch & snacks

Office events

Hybrid Playa Vista office

Job summary

Apex Technology, Inc. is seeking a SOC Analyst to monitor, investigate, and respond to security activity across endpoints, identity, cloud services, networks, and mission-support environments.

You will work with alerts, logs, vulnerabilities, and investigations to determine what happened and what needs to happen next. Responsibilities include monitoring alerts from CrowdStrike, Elastic SIEM, Microsoft Identity, AWS, and Palo Alto; investigating suspicious events; escalating incidents based on

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required at time of hire.
• US Citizenship required.
• 2+ years of experience in a SOC, incident response, threat detection, endpoint security, vulnerability management, or another hands-on cybersecurity operations role.
• Experience investigating events using EDR, SIEM, identity, cloud, or network telemetry.
• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux, authentication, endpoint behavior, networking fundamentals, and cloud logging.
• Ability to write useful search queries and filters in a SIEM or log-analysis platform and document investigations so another analyst can continue the work.
• Understanding of incident triage, scoping, containment, evidence preservation, escalation, vulnerability prioritization, and post-incident remediation.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and triage security alerts from CrowdStrike, Elastic SIEM, Microsoft Identity, AWS, and Palo Alto.
• Investigate suspicious logins, phishing emails, privilege changes, and unusual network events.
• Escalate incidents based on affected systems, severity, and CUI impact.
• Work with IT, Cybersecurity, and Network teams on security findings involving our systems and infrastructure.
• Document incidents, required resolutions, and potentially affected assets.
• Maintain recurring logging reviews and incident response documentation with the IT team; collect evidence to support vulnerability management and compliance reporting.

Skills

SOC operations

Threat detection

Endpoint security

Cloud logging

EDR

Tools

CrowdStrike Falcon

Elastic SIEM

Microsoft Identity

AWS security telemetry

Palo Alto

Tenable

Elastic Security

Job description

Apex Technology, Inc. is seeking a SOC Analyst to monitor, investigate, and respond to security activity across endpoints, identity, cloud services, networks, and mission-support environments.

You will work with alerts, logs, vulnerabilities, and investigations to determine what happened and what needs to happen next. Responsibilities include monitoring alerts from CrowdStrike, Elastic SIEM, Microsoft Identity, AWS, and Palo Alto; investigating suspicious events; escalating incidents based on