Statewide Infosec Analyst: Threat Hunting and IR

Cybersecurity Jobs; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

McNeese State University is seeking an IT Statewide Infosec Analyst to strengthen enterprise security operations from the Office of Technology Services. This onsite Baton Rouge role will monitor real-time cyber threats, coordinate incident response, and support enterprise systems, applications, and networks.

You will work with Cortex XSIAM, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, and ServiceNow, validating alerts, performing containment steps, and maintaining security logs.

Qualifications

• Four years of experience in information technology OR six years in any field plus two years in information technology
• Associate degree plus two years IT experience, or higher degrees with IT experience
• Certification substitutions allowed for hire
• Experience substitution: 30 semester hours equals one year of experience (max 120 semester hours)

Responsibilities

• Monitor real-time security alerts and investigate incidents
• Coordinate remediation with the CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MSP and OTS teams
• Document findings and root cause analyses in the incident log
• Tune detection logic and playbooks to reduce false positives
• Manage ServiceNow ticket queue for proxy, access, and URL reclassification items
• Troubleshoot SSL/TLS decryption exceptions and SWG connections
• Analyze traffic patterns for policy violations and unauthorized app usage
• Maintain SOPs for enterprise proxy management and ticket workflows
• Investigate suspicious internal and perimeter network activity using logs
• Perform proactive threat hunting using IoCs and TTPs
• Reconstruct attack timelines by correlating diverse logs
• Escalate intrusions to senior incident responders and leadership
• Monitor identity signals for compromised credentials and MFA issues
• Coordinate with Service Desk for account locks and password resets
• Verify post-compromise cleanup and removal of persistence mechanisms
• Provide remediation guidance to agency points of contact and help desks

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Security monitoring

Log analysis

Education

Associate degree in information technology

Bachelor's degree in information technology

Master's degree in information technology

Tools

Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete

ServiceNow

SSL/TLS

OAuth

Job description

McNeese State University is seeking an IT Statewide Infosec Analyst to strengthen enterprise security operations from the Office of Technology Services. This onsite Baton Rouge role will monitor real-time cyber threats, coordinate incident response, and support enterprise systems, applications, and networks.

You will work with Cortex XSIAM, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, and ServiceNow, validating alerts, performing containment steps, and maintaining security logs.