Senior Security Analyst (Hawaii)

Cybersecurity for the public good.

At the company, we help organizations navigate an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape with confidence. By combining expert guidance, innovative technology, and trusted partnerships, we make security stronger, more effective, and easier to understand. We're looking for talented individuals who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges, helping clients succeed, and continuously improving alongside a team that values curiosity, collaboration, and impact.

The Opportunity

The Senior Security Analyst is a senior individual contributor within the company Managed Services Security Operations team. This role serves as the technical anchor on shift, conducting deep investigations, producing client-ready documentation, and actively raising the quality of the team's work through mentorship and technical shift ownership. Senior Security Analysts are expected to operate with minimal direction, self-assign to the most complex open problems, and deliver work that reflects the company's commitment to technical excellence and client outcomes

Shift

First (1st) Shift Honolulu, Hawaii | Monday - Friday 1:00pm - 9:30pm ET .

What you will do

• Live by the company corporate values: Help Clients Win, Always Improve, Protect the House.

• Own investigations end-to-end from initial alert through root cause analysis, attack chain reconstruction, and client-ready written narrative.

• Correlate across SIEM, EDR, and identity telemetry to identify what alerts missed, not just what they flagged.

• Self-assign to difficult, ambiguous, or high-priority work without requiring direction, including work that falls outside defined lanes.

• Support the Security Analyst team with alert triage, classification, disposition, and escalation within SLA requirements.

• Identify and communicate security gaps and mitigations in the context of client environments.

• Communicate proactively with the Security Operations Manager on active threats, escalations, and items requiring leadership visibility.

• Facilitate client-facing meetings including incident briefings, escalation reviews, and threat landscape discussions.

• Produce ticket documentation that requires no editorial cleanup, every ticket must include an evidence trail, analyst reasoning, disposition rationale, and a plain-language client summary

• Remain current on emerging threats, CVEs, and attacker techniques relevant to client environments.

• Support the onboarding of new clients onto the company Security Services and Platforms.

• Train, mentor, and support junior analysts, including structured coaching on investigation methodology, documentation standards, and client communication.

• Review escalations to clients from junior analysts prior to client delivery, ensuring investigative completeness and documentation quality.

• Develop and refine automation playbooks to reduce alert volume and improve analyst workflow.

• Contribute tuning feedback, noise identification, and alert fidelity assessments to the Detection Engineering program, in coordination with DE leadership.

• Develop recommendations and enhancements to mature a client’s cybersecurity program.

Your Foundation

We're looking for someone who brings these minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and five (5) years of experience. Experience should be in a cybersecurity field and should include relevant industry certifications.

• In lieu of a degree, two (2) years of experience in a related technology field and relevant industry certifications are required.

• Demonstrated experience with SOC operations, executing security event triaging and tuning.

• Demonstrated experience writing runbooks and support procedures.

• Demonstrated experience executing Monitoring and Response across multiple phases, containment, eradication, and recovery, in a SOC or MSSP environment.

• Demonstrated experience with security event triaging and threat hunting executed through both a SIEM and EDR toolset.

• Hands on experience with at least two of the following Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Security Orchestration Automation and Response solutions.

• CrowdStrike

• Microsoft Defender

• Microsoft Sentinel

• Splunk Enterprise Security

• Demonstrated experience with scripting in at least one language (Python, PowerShell, or equivalent) in a manner that supports automation solutions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Previous experience in technical support or security-focused role.

• Must be authorized to work within the United States.

• Must be located in Hawaii

Stand out With

You may stand out if you have experience with

• Bachelor’s Degree and seven (7) or more years of experience in cybersecurity with progressive responsibility in SOC, MDR, or MSSP environment.

• Holds at least two relevant industry certifications (GCFA, GCIH, CEH, CISSP, etc.)

• Demonstrated experience communicating and presenting to executive level client stakeholders.

• Technical writing and reporting experience.

• Experience executing initial triaging and response through a SOAR platform.

• Experience with multiple operating systems (Linux, MacOS, Windows), their command lines, processes, and file systems.

• Experience with memory and storage forensics.

• Experience with static and dynamic malware analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical findings into clear, business-relevant narratives for non-technical audiences.

• Experience with data science techniques (clustering, anomaly detection, data normalization, etc.

• General systems administrator experience.

• Fluency with the MITRE ATT&CK framework as an active investigation and communication tool.

• Experience working in multiple cybersecurity disciplines (i.e. Penetration Testing, Threat, Information Assurance, Engineering, etc.)

Why the company?

At the company, you'll find more than a job - you'll find a team committed to helping each other grow, solve meaningful problems, and make a measurable impact.

You can expect

• A collaborative, high-performing team environment

• Leaders who are invested in your success and development

• Meaningful work that helps organizations protect critical services and missions

• The encouragement to bring your authentic self to work every day

• Competitive pay, performance-based bonus opportunities, generous paid time off, and comprehensive benefits

Compensation

This position has an anticipated base salary range of $110,000–$135,000 annually , plus eligibility for the company's annual bonus program with a target opportunity of 10%.

Actual compensation is based on factors including experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location.

Join Us

At the company, we believe great security starts with great people. We're looking for curious problem-solvers, trusted advisors, and continuous learners who are passionate about helping clients win.

If you're ready to make an impact while growing alongside a team that values people as much as technology, we'd love to hear from you.

AAP/EEO Statement

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of the company is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. The company hires and promotes individuals solely based on their qualifications for the job to be filled.

The company believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.  We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.