Principal Security Operations Analyst

March 29

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Huntress is a cybersecurity firm that provides managed detection, investigation, and response solutions to protect endpoints, identities, and email environments. It offers a platform with managed EDR, security awareness training, ITDR for Microsoft 365, and SIEM solutions, all supported by a 24/7 Security Operations Center. Huntress is designed to secure small and medium-sized businesses against cyber threats. Their services help organizations across industries, ensuring robust protection and compliance, especially in environments like education, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and government.

Cyber Breach Detection • Incident Response • Endpoint Protection • Malware Analysis • Managed Services

201 - 500 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Reports to: Manager, Security Operations Center • Location: Remote West Coast US • Compensation Range: $190,000 - $225,000 plus bonus and equity • What We Do: Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference. • Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service. • We protect 3M+ endpoints and 1M+ identities worldwide, elevating under-resourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting. • What You’ll Do: Huntress is looking for a Principal Security Operations Center Analyst based in the United States to join our quickly growing team. In this role, you will triage, investigate, respond to, and remediate intrusions daily. You’ll be surrounded by passionate individuals who are mission-driven to help protect companies worldwide from cyber-attacks. This person will also mentor junior team members, allowing them to grow individually and as a team. • The Huntress Security Operations Center is an elite team that wakes up daily to combat threat actors. You will have daily opportunities to progress your analysis skills while being at the forefront of what’s happening in the wild. With the chance to work on various incidents alongside a skilled team, you’ll have the opportunity to accelerate your career and skills, too.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years experience in a SOC, Incident Response, or Forensics role • Ability to explain possible complex alerts/events in a non-complex way, both written and verbal • Proven mentoring experience and skills to junior team members, helping them to grow individually and as a team • Understanding of Malware Analysis (Configuration of isolated Malware Analysis VM, Identification of File Formats, Basic Static & Dynamic analysis) • Demonstrated experience with Windows and/or MacOS as an attack surface • Strong understanding and experience with Threat Actor Tools and techniques: (MITRE ATT&CK Framework, PowerShell & Command Prompt Terminals, WMIC, Scheduled Tasks, SCM, Windows Domain and host Enumeration Techniques, Basic Lateral Movement Techniques, Basic Persistence Mechanisms, Basic Defense Evasion Techniques, other offensive/Red Team TTPs) • Strong experience with Windows Administration or Enterprise Domain Administration and upkeep (Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell, Windows Server Update Service, and Domain Trusts) • Strong experience with M365/Cloud attack techniques • Demonstrated equivalent of self-guided study experience or Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, System Administration, or cybersecurity

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015 • Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays • 12 weeks of paid parental leave • Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans • 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution • Life and Disability insurance plans • Stock options for all full-time employees • One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office • Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance • $75 USD/month digital reimbursement • Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth