Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst, Senior

Job description

Responsibilities We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst Senior to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard. Responsibilities: - Perform advanced Tier‑1 monitoring, triage, and initial alert analysis across SIEM, EDR, network security tools, cloud telemetry, and enterprise monitoring platforms. - Review high‑volume alerts, correlate events across multiple data sources, and identify patterns indicative of targeted or multi‑stage activity. - Execute Tier‑1 containment actions per playbooks (host isolation, account disablement, block rules) and validate immediate mitigations. - Enrich alerts with contextual data, validate IOCs, document detailed case notes, and prepare high‑quality escalations for Tier‑2/Tier‑3 and CIRT teams. - Conduct deeper log analysis, cross‑platform correlation, and preliminary threat‑hunt queries to surface anomalies requiring escalation. - Coordinate with Tier‑2 analysts, CIRT, and network operations to support incident response, provide contextual summaries, and recommend next steps. - Monitor SIEM/tool performance, identify visibility gaps or misconfigurations, and recommend tun...