CareerPlan

Senior Cyber Defense Operations Analyst

CaryFull-time2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead investigations and incident response for security alerts across cloud, corporate, endpoint, identity, and production environments while automating SOC workflows.

Role type

Senior IC security operations analyst (incident response & detection)

Builds

Automated, AI-assisted security workflows and detection logic

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Security / Threat Intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

SIEM/EDR platform expertise, cloud security (AWS/GCP), threat detection frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK), scripting/automation (Python), incident triage, playbook development

Preferred skills

SOAR experience, AI/ML application in security, security engineering partnership

Technologies

Splunk, Google SecOps, CrowdStrike NGSIEM, AWS, GCP, Python, SOAR

Responsibilities

Lead triage, investigation, and response for security alerts; coordinate incident response with engineering and legal; develop and tune detection logic; automate analyst work with AI agents; create playbooks and operational metrics; coach analysts and manage SLAs

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC