Senior Cybersecurity Risk Analyst

MatchPoint Solutions is a fast-growing young energetic global IT-Engineering services company with clients across the US. We provide technology solutions to various clients like Uber Robinhood Netflix Airbnb Google Sephora and more! More recently we have expanded to working internationally in Canada China Ireland UK Brazil and India. Through our culture of innovation we inspire build and deliver business results from idea to outcome. We keep our clients on the cutting edge of the latest technologies and provide solutions by using industry-specific best practices and expertise.

We are excited to be continuously expanding our team. If you are interested in this position please send over your updated resume. We look forward to hearing from you!

Job Title: Senior Cybersecurity / Risk Analyst

Onsite: North Carolina US

6 Months

Rate: 40$-45$ on W2

Position Summary

The Senior Cybersecurity / Risk Analyst leads the response to high-priority and escalated cybersecurity incidents with a focus on insider risk and telemetry-driven detection. This role oversees end-to-end incident handling-including detection analysis containment eradication recovery reporting and prevention. The position also drives continuous improvement through development of new detection logic micro-hunts and the integration of automation and AI-assisted analytics to increase detection fidelity and reduce manual effort. Success in this role requires advanced technical depth strong operational rigor and the ability to communicate clearly with both technical teams and executive stakeholders.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Incident leadership: Serve as lead handler for escalated risk and cyber incidents; establish investigation strategy ensure timely execution and drive incident closure.
• Advanced investigation and triage: Conduct deep-dive analysis of security events using telemetry endpoint/network evidence and threat intelligence to determine scope impact and root cause.
• Detection engineering and continuous improvement: Create tune and deploy new detection rules and analytics aligned to evolving threats and suspicious behaviors; reduce false positives and improve signal-to-noise.
• Micro-hunts and threat intelligence: Perform targeted hunts to discover emerging behaviors and translate findings into actionable detections controls and playbooks.
• Remediation and containment: Partner with IT and security stakeholders to drive containment remediation and recovery actions across endpoints identities and cloud services.
• Process and program maturity: Contribute to incident response process improvements documentation standards and after-action reviews; support development of tabletop exercise scenarios.
• Executive communication: Produce clear concise updates for leadership (status impact risk and next steps) and deliver required incident reports and post-incident summaries. Required Qualifications
• Four (4) or more years of hands-on cybersecurity experience in incident response security operations insider risk threat detection or a closely related function.
• Demonstrated experience leading or handling escalated incidents including triage investigation containment remediation and post-incident reporting in complex enterprise environments.
• Proficiency with security telemetry and investigation workflows across endpoint and network data sources; experience using SIEM analytics (e.g. Splunk) and EDR tooling.
• Working knowledge across multiple domains such as host analysis network forensics cloud environments UEBA/anomaly detection intrusion detection threat research/intelligence detection engineering and data analysis.
• Ability to develop or maintain automation using scripting (e.g. Python PowerShell Bash) and/or APIs to improve security operations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to produce executive-ready summaries and lead discussions with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated integrity and discretion in handling sensitive investigations and confidential data. Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with Tanium (or comparable endpoint management/telemetry platforms) and building integrations across enterprise security tools.
• Experience implementing automation or orchestration in security operations (SOAR APIs pipelines scripted workflows) to accelerate response and improve consistency.
• Experience applying AI-assisted analytics for alert enrichment correlation/deduplication prioritization and operational reporting.
• Experience with insider risk programs user/entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and behavior-based detection strategies.
• Experience investigating and responding to threats in cloud and SaaS environments.
• Experience mentoring analysts and contributing to training playbooks and tabletop exercise development.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g. GCIA GCIH GCFA CISSP or equivalent) and/or a bachelors degree in a related field.

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