Senior Security Analyst

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Security Analyst based in United States.

As a Senior Security Analyst, you will play a hands-on role in protecting cloud infrastructure, corporate systems, and sensitive customer data.
You’ll help strengthen security operations by investigating threats, improving detection capabilities, and leading incident response activities.
The role combines technical security analysis with risk management, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration.
You’ll work extensively across AWS environments while helping develop security controls, procedures, and monitoring capabilities.
You’ll also contribute to vulnerability management, threat modeling, third-party assessments, and security architecture decisions.
This is an opportunity to help build and mature security processes in a growing environment where ownership and sound judgment are highly valued.
Your work will directly support enterprise trust, regulatory readiness, and the resilience of critical systems.

Accountabilities
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Lead and support investigations and response activities involving security incidents, suspicious activity, vulnerabilities, and emerging threats.

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Design, implement, and continuously improve security monitoring, detection, alerting, and response capabilities across AWS environments.

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Develop and maintain detection rules, investigation procedures, security workflows, and operational processes.

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Conduct post-incident reviews to identify root causes, lessons learned, control gaps, and preventative measures.

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Identify security exposures, vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance risks, and communicate practical recommendations to relevant stakeholders.

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Perform security assessments of third-party vendors, SaaS platforms, services, and technologies.

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Partner with Technology and Product teams to design secure solutions and strengthen existing security controls.

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Support vulnerability management, threat modeling, endpoint security, and broader security engineering initiatives.

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Provide evidence and supporting materials for compliance programs and regulatory activities.

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Maintain security documentation, standards, operational procedures, and related governance materials.

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Support security awareness initiatives and provide guidance on secure business practices.

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Monitor evolving threats, attacker techniques, defensive technologies, and relevant security developments.

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Authorize and approve user access in accordance with applicable security requirements and processes.

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Coordinate with relevant AI and security teams on corporate-level security program functions.

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Develop and maintain an accurate System Security Plan (SSP) package for the designated FedRAMP system and distribute relevant elements on a need-to-know basis.

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Designate and coordinate personnel responsible for critical security program functions, including incident handling and disaster recovery.

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Receive and assess operational alerts, updates, and status reports from team members and critical system components.

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Oversee the continuous monitoring program for U.S. operations and report security and privacy status to relevant external entities, including customer agencies, FedRAMP program stakeholders, and third-party assessment organizations.

Requirements

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5+ years of experience in security operations, security engineering, cybersecurity, or a closely related field.

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U.S. citizenship and residence within the United States.

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Strong experience in security monitoring, incident response, threat detection, and forensic investigation.

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Deep understanding of network security, application security, infrastructure hardening, vulnerability management, and defensive security practices.

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Experience deploying, managing, and automating security solutions within cloud environments.

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