Remote Role || Security Analyst - Project Lead || Columbia, SC

Daily Duties / Responsibilities

• Continuously review and correlate security event data across SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, and threat intelligence sources to identify complex attack patterns, emerging threats, and security incidents.
• Perform deep-dive analysis of suspicious activity, validate incidents, determine root cause and impact, and escalate critical incidents with detailed context to Tier 3 as required.
• Create detailed incident reports, timelines, and post-incident summaries; contribute to lessons-learned documentation and recommendations for remediation and preventative measures.
• Investigate user-reported phishing, malware infections, and potential policy violations; advise users and internal/external teams on containment and recovery actions.
• Recommend updates to SOC playbooks and workflows based on real-world INVESTIGATIONS, fine-tune detection rules. Alert thresholds, and correlation logic to reduce false positives and improve threat coverage.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure monitoring tools are properly configured and tuned.
• Integrate new threat intelligence feeds into workflows and proactively hunt for threats using up-to date tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Serve as a customer-facing SME, "selling" the value of DIS services by demonstrating capabilities and resolving issues.
• Document processes, runbooks, and troubleshooting steps related to SOC operations.
• Cook up with engineering, SOC, and agency staff as needed to meet goals.

Required Skills

• 2+ Years of Experience with Security Monitoring and Incident Response
• 2+ Years of Experience with MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• 2+ Years of Experience with dashboard creation and reporting

Preferred Skills

• Experience with the Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM/XDR platform.
• Knowledge of Linux network administration and network design.
• Experience in administration of firewalls, VPN technology, Active Directory, Intrusion Detection/Prevention systems.