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Intracruit Solutions

Security Operations Center Analyst

On site

North carolina, United states

Junior

Freelance

26-02-2026

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Skills

Cloud Security Forensics Analytics

Job Specifications

Tier 2 SOC Analyst -

6 Month Contract to Hire

Position Overview:

Tier-2 Senior SOC Analyst focuses on improving detection fidelity and response efficiency by tuning SIEM detections, developing automation in SOAR, and performing advanced threat analytics to identify and contain sophisticated attacks.

Key Responsibilities

Triage escalated alerts from Tier-1 and validate true/false positives and proper response

Correlate multi-source telemetry (EDR, SIEM, DNS/proxy, firewall, IAM, cloud logs) to scope incidents

Produce clear incident timelines, findings, and recommended containment actions; coordinate escalations to IR/forensics

Design, build, and maintain SOAR playbooks for alert enrichment, containment steps, and standardized triage

Integrate tools/APIs (SIEM, EDR, ticketing, threat intel, IAM) to automate evidence collection and response

Conduct proactive hunts using MITRE ATTACK mapping and intelligence-driven analytics

Required Technical Skills

3+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience

Strong hands-on SIEM investigation and detection content development (correlation rules, query-based alerts)

Experience tuning detection logic and measuring detection quality (false positive reduction, alert fatigue control)

Incident investigation experience across endpoint, identity, network, email, and cloud telemetry

Working knowledge of adversary behaviors and kill chain concepts; ability to reason from artifacts to hypotheses

Familiarity with malware triage basics (hash reputation, sandboxing, simple static indicators)

Cloud security telemetry analysis (audit logs, resource changes, identity events)

About the Company

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