Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sikich is a highly regarded provider of professional services, seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to enhance their clients' security posture. This role involves reviewing security alerts, conducting investigations, and providing strategic recommendations to improve security measures while collaborating with clients and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Review and analyze SOC alerts, event trends, and client security environments to identify gaps, recurring issues, and improvement opportunities
• Develop actionable strategic recommendations for security control enhancements, process refinements, and detection rule tuning
• Evaluate the effectiveness of detection and response capabilities across client environments and recommend optimization strategies
• Partner with clients during onboarding to validate security requirements, perform tool integrations and configurations, and tailor monitoring controls to meet organizational needs
• Lead small-scale security improvement projects, including SOC workflow updates and tool configuration enhancements
• Contribute to compliance readiness by ensuring monitoring and response processes align with frameworks such as NIST CSF and CIS Controls
• Collaborate with leadership on technology evaluations, providing input on new tools, integrations, and detection capabilities
• Serve as the escalation point for SOC alerts, triaging and investigating potential threats to determine risk and impact
• Lead and coordinate the containment, mitigation, and resolution of escalated security incidents
• Conduct post-incident reviews, internally and with clients, to determine root cause, document findings, and recommend preventive measures
• Perform advanced threat hunting activities to proactively detect indicators of compromise
• Escalate high-severity incidents to the Incident Response (IR) team when needed, ensuring complete transfer of investigative context
• Maintain and optimize security tools, SIEM configurations, and monitoring dashboards

Skills

• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience, including at least 2 years in SOC operations, incident response, or threat hunting
• Strong background in alert triage, log analysis, and security environment evaluation
• Demonstrated ability to create actionable security recommendations based on trends, patterns, and post-incident findings
• Proficiency with SIEM platforms, security monitoring tools, and EDR solutions
• Familiarity with NIST, CIS, or other security compliance frameworks
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present technical findings and recommendations to both technical and business audiences
• Servant Leader – You are hyper focused on engaging employees, fostering their development, and building a positive culture
• Solutions Focused – You see opportunities in every business problem and can develop, articulate, and implement solutions
• Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units
• Instills Trust - You do what you say, and you follow through on commitments, you act with integrity, you are consistent and are perceived as credible
• Impact & Influence Thinking – You gain support for ideas, proposals, and solutions, and get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives/objectives
• Experience with Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE), and SentinelOne
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, or equivalent
• Experience with PSA and RMM tools (e.g., ConnectWise Manage, Automate)
• Experience working on multiple client environments in a consulting and managed service provider/managed security service provider (MSP/MSSP)

Benefits

• Sikich maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Sikich, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
• Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
• Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.
• Flexible work arrangements
• Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
• HSA employer contribution
• Nine (9) paid holidays annually.
• A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
• 401(k) with employer contributions
• CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days.
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Client referral bonus program
• Pet insurance
• FORCE – Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.

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