Senior SOC Analyst
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Job Location:
Lake Forest, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
26-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Title: Lead SOC Analyst 100% remote
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 months contract to hire
Top 3 Must Have Skills:
- Prior experience leading a team or ability to lead a team
- Certifications over college education - ITIL CISSP GIAC GCIH GNFA and GDAT to ITIL CISSP GIAC GCIH GNFA and GDAT
Notes from Manager: Needs to have prior experience with leading projects or team members but does not want someone who is currently a manager.
Needs skills in incident response along with SIEM EDR Compliance/Policy Experience
Interview Process: 1 interview 1 tech screening
Senior SOC Analyst 100% remote
- Provide Shift leadership and support to the SOC operation.
- Provide Mentoring and oversight of Junior analysts. Guide intrusion event investigations.
- Monitoring security events in various SIEMs and other security feeds and systems such as e-mail phone and chat.
- Perform analysis of threat events and review escalations from lower-level analysts to appropriate groups as needed.
- Review Incident Analysis reports for completeness and accuracy.
- Ensure SOC procedures and playbooks are followed.
- Perform Ticket review and quality control.
- Develop and maintain a security incident response process.
- Identity new attack vectors and recommend methods to detect them.
- Perform analysis of network security needs and contribute to the design integration and installation of hardware and software.
- Maintain and configure security systems e.g. Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Web Security Gateway vulnerability management and other security technologies.
- Perform internal audits to ensure compliance or existing security guidelines.
- Performs other duties as required.
Requirements
- 5-6 years of technical hands-on experience in a SOC or related field.
- Azure Compliance Experience - investigating Azure environment and making sure they meet best practices
- EDR Experience
- Knowledge of phishing experience
- SIEM/Log experience
- Knowledge of networking and Systems (windows/linux)
- Preferred Certifications but not limited to ITIL CISSP GIAC GCIH GNFA and GDAT.
- Functional understanding of a diverse set of networked applications requiring application traffic management solutions including HTTP HTTPS SSH FTP DNS and NTP services
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP and routing protocols.
- Good investigation skills and natural curiosity for security processes are desirable.
- Detailed working knowledge of security architectures.
- Working knowledge of modern operating systems Linux Windows and macOS.
- College Degree Preferred.
- Motivated Self-starter.
- Forward-thinking detail-oriented person.
Key Skills
- Splunk
- IDS
- Microsoft Access
- SQL
- Cybersecurity
- Intelligence Experience
- Malware Analysis
- Tableau
- Analysis Skills
- SAS
- Data Analysis Skills
- Analytics
