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Position Title:     Sr. SOC Analyst (1st shift 7am-3pm CST)

Location Information  

Remote

Position Responsibilities:

As a Sr. SOC Analyst working the 1st shift (7am-3pm CST), you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the efficiency, detection coverage, and operational excellence of a fast-paced Security Operations Center. This role is hands-on and highly collaborative, targeting continuous improvement of cyber defense operations, with an emphasis on reducing inefficiencies, expanding detection capabilities, and driving threat-informed defense strategies.

You’ll collaborate across information security teams, enhance and fine-tune monitoring platforms, proactively hunt for threats, and work to elevate the overall security posture by delivering measurable improvements. This position is ideal for a proactive and analytical professional eager to advance both their technical and operational impact within a cybersecurity environment.

Core Responsibilities:

• Drive Operations: Identify and address workflow and process inefficiencies to improve SOC response speed and analyst effectiveness. Expand detection coverage by developing new use cases and refining detection logic.
• Threat-Informed Defense & Detection Engineering:
  • Leverage internal and external threat intelligence, risk insights, and adversary research to guide proactive security defenses.
  • Develop, tune, and optimize detection and monitoring platforms (SIEM/SOAR, EDR, NDR, and log analytics) to maintain high detection fidelity and minimize false positives.
  • Engineer, test, and deploy new detection logic, alerting setups, behavioral analytics, and ATT&CK-aligned use cases.
  • Collaborate with platform owners to identify and address control gaps with both preventive and detective enhancements.
• SOC Operations Maturity & Operational Excellence:
  • Partner with SOC leadership to continuously refine role responsibilities and operational targets.
  • Spot opportunities to streamline execution, minimize friction, and promote consistency and speed within SOC operations.
  • Translate detection gaps into actionable and measurable improvements, including designing new automations or enhancing existing processes.
• Threat Hunting:
  • Perform hypothesis-driven and intelligence-driven threat hunts to uncover hidden threats and improve visibility.
  • Document findings and provide clear communication with SOC leadership and partner teams for remediation efforts.
  • Continuously develop and evolve hunting methodologies and response automation to adapt to the changing threat landscape.
• Incident Response & Security Event Handling:
  • Support the management and resolution of security events and incidents, working independently and in teams as needed.
  • Identify, assess, report, and recover from security incidents while participating in after-hours response when necessary.

Essential Skills, Experience

• 3–5+ years of hands-on experience in a security operations or incident response capacity.
• Direct experience with SOC operations, detection engineering, threat hunting, or cyber threat intelligence.
• Ability to identify and resolve operational inefficiencies and translate technical findings into process or detection improvements.
• Expertise leveraging SIEM/SOAR, EDR, NDR, and logging and analytics platforms to drive detection and response quality.
• Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework, as well as behavioral analytics and threat intelligence feeds.
• Demonstrated capability in hypothesis-driven and intelligence-driven threat hunting methodologies.
• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proactive approach to continuous improvement and operational maturity in a cybersecurity setting.
• Ability to participate in on-call and after-hours incident response when necessary.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or equivalent professional experience/certifications.
• Proven ability to balance business objectives and security best practices in a risk-managed environment.
• Certifications such as GCIA, GCED, GCIH, CISSP, or equivalent are considered a plus.

ECCO Select is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. Our policy is to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category. Veterans of our United States Uniformed Services are specifically encouraged to apply for ECCO Select opportunities.

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