Mid-Level Cybersecurity Analyst

Kelly Mitchell Group - Fort Worth, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Hybrid - Fort Worth, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Mid-Level Cybersecurity Analyst will focus on security monitoring, analysis, and alerting by pulling and analyzing log files from various systems including Windows, Linux, and commercial applications. This role requires hands-on experience in log analysis to identify malicious behavior and communicate findings to the incident management team. It is a hybrid position based in Fort Worth, TX, emphasizing collaboration and proactive threat assessment.

Responsibilities

• Support enterprise logging and analysis solutions
• Analyze log files for suspicious activity
• Analyze event data for suspicious patterns
• Analyze log sources, assess threats, and define alerting criteria
• Maintain documentation
• Develop log policies by creating rules, setting thresholds, and prioritizing alerts based on impact and urgency
• Work with IR Engineering to configure data ingestion, detection rules, and finetune detection
• Work with CIRT to configure incident creation, explore opportunities to enrich incident data, and assign incidents to CIRT teams
• Review policies regularly, address false positives/negatives, and stay updated on technology
• Data extraction
• Reporting

Requirements

• Hands-on log file analysis experience
• Windows and Linux experience
• Critical thinking and analysis skills
• Strong sense of ownership
• Highly curious
• Able to work independently with minimal direction
• Ability to directly pull log files from Windows and/or Linux environments
• Windows 10 experience
• Windows Server 2019 experience
• Linux Ubuntu 2018 experience
• Scripting (Powershell, BASH, Python, etc.) experience
• MySQL experience
• Anvilogic experience
• FluentBit experience
• CompTIA Security+ certification
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Plans
• 401K offered