CompassMSP
Senior Security Analyst
Senior Security Analyst monitoring and responding to EDR/XDR/SIEM alerts, conducting incident response and threat hunting, and deploying managed security tooling for MSSP clients.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote - Pacific Time Zone, United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Security
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of experience in a SOC/incident response role
- Demonstrated experience conducting alert and incident investigations end-to-end with minimal oversight and sound escalation judgment
- Able to perform containment, blocking, isolation, and basic remediation in SMB environments
- Experience monitoring and responding to threats impacting Windows, Microsoft 365 / Entra ID, and firewalls
- Familiarity working across EDR, firewall administration, identity and email security consoles, ticketing systems, RMM tools, and security telemetry sources
Nice to have
- Network, cloud, and endpoint recovery
- Firewall, VPN, and zero-trust environments
- Backup validation and isolated recovery environments
- Active Directory, virtual hosts, domain controllers, migrations, and secure system restoration
- Endpoint wipe-and-reload and related rebuild activities
Full description
The Senior Security Analyst will monitor and manage alerts generated from various security tools and respond to and mitigate security threats for CompassMSP’s managed security service clients. They will also assist in deploying and managing the technology that enables our core security services, maximizing and bolstering our clients’ security with their technical expertise and knowledge of security industry best practices.
Responsibilities
- Investigate, manage,respond to,and escalatesecurity alerts from various security platforms, such as EDR/XDR, SIEM, etc.
- Analyze security events escalated from tier 1 tovalidatethreats and respond accordingly.
- Investigate and respond to reported phishing emails.
- Analyze, prioritize, and track vulnerabilitiesdetected by vulnerability scanners.
- Researchemerging threatsand perform global threat huntsto support correlating industrydata and threat feeds with our clients’ environments andattack surfaces.
- Conduct incident response procedures, investigatingindicators of compromise,identifyingroot causes, collecting evidence, anddrafting incident response reports.
- Collaborate with othersecurityanalysts,compliance analysts,Compassengineers,andvCISOs,lendingthem yourtechnicalexpertisein ordertoprovide exceptional managed security services toour clients.
- Interface directly with clients and end users wheninvestigating threats and managing/troubleshooting managed security tools.
- Assistin the deployment of the managed security services toolstackto new clients.
- Assistwithinternal quality projects, including developing standardsandsecurityservicesforCompassMSP.
- Stay current with the latest industry trends, best practices, and regulatory requirements tohelpcontinuously enhance our securityservices.
- Hunt for emerging threats using a combination ofmethods and tools such as SIEM querying, software testing, sandboxing, etc.Translate the results of threat hunts into actionable alerts andanalysisSOPs to aid the SOC in protecting clients.
- Create andmaintaininternal standard operating procedures.
- Participate in a flexible work schedule to includeafter hours/ on-call shifts.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a SOC/incident response role.
- Demonstrated experience conducting alert and incident investigationsend-to-end with minimal oversight and sound escalation judgment
- Execution-oriented: able to perform containment, blocking, isolation, and basic remediation in small and mid-sized business environments.
- Experience monitoring and responding to threatsimpactingWindows, Microsoft 365 / Entra ID, and firewalls.
- Familiarity and comfort working acrossEDR,firewalladministration, identity and email security consoles, ticketing systems, RMM tools, and security telemetry sources.