Security Operations Analyst - West Coast

Reports to: Manager, Security Operations Center Location: Remote Pacific Time Zone, US Compensation Range: $100,000-$125,000 base plus bonus and equity. This role may be eligible for on-call/call-in pay in addition to base pay *The initial training period for this position will be Monday-Friday. Following training, the work schedule is subject to change and may include weekend or a 4x10 shift, depending on business requirements* 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 4M+ endpoints and 7M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced 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 Security Operations Center Analyst to add to our growing team. In this role, you will get to triage, investigate, respond, and remediate a variety of intrusions on a daily basis. You’ll be surrounded by passionate individuals who are mission-driven to help protect companies around the world from cyberattacks and will have daily opportunities to progress your analyst skillset and accelerate your career growth. The Huntress Security Operations Center is an elite team of individuals who wake up every day 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. If you’re looking to accelerate your career and skills, this is the team for you! Responsibilities: Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts coming in from the Huntress platform. Perform tactical review of EDR telemetry, log sources, and forensic artifacts to determine the root cause of attacks, where possible, and provide remediations needed to remove the threat. Perform tactical malware analysis as part of investigating and triaging alerts. Investigate suspicious Microsoft M365 activity and provide remediations. Assist in escalations from the Product Support team for threat-related and SOC-relevant questions. Contribute to detection engineering creation and tuning efforts. Contribute to projects focused on driving better outcomes for our analysts and partners Contribute to our collaboratively mentored team (we're all here to make each other better!). What You Bring To The Team: 2+ years of experience in a SOC or Digital Forensics (DFIR) role Demonstrated experience with Windows, Linux, and MacOS as an attack surface Demonstrated experience with basic 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) Demonstrated experience with static and dynamic malware analysis concepts Working knowledge of Windows Administration or Enterprise Domain Administration Active Directory, Group Policy, Domain Trusts, etc. Working knowledge of core networking concepts Common ports/protocols, NAT, Public/Private IPs, VLANs, etc. Working knowledge of web technologies and concepts Web servers/applications, OWASP top 10, etc. Effective communication skills, with the ability to explain complex events to less technical audiences, enabling effective cross-functional col