Cybersecurity Analyst (Aerospace and Defense)

Location: Onsite in Folsom, California; candidates must be eligible to work in the United States and hold or obtain the required U.S. security clearance.

Base salary: $125,000–$165,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops mission-critical technologies for space, defense, and national security applications.

What you will do

• Monitor and analyze security alerts, endpoint events, identity events, email-security findings, and other security signals.
• Investigate suspicious activity, document findings, recommend remediation, and escalate incidents.
• Analyze vulnerabilities, configuration gaps, endpoint posture, and control weaknesses, coordinating remediation with IT, networking, cloud, and system owners.
• Support threat hunting, log reviews, detection improvements, tabletop exercises, and incident-response drills.
• Maintain security plans, POA&Ms, control evidence, risk registers, procedures, and remediation trackers.
• Support NIST SP 800-171, CMMC, DFARS, ITAR/EAR, NASA, DoD, and contractor assessment requirements.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in information technology, security, or engineering, or 8+ years of related military experience with applicable security certifications.
• Active TS/SCI clearance required upon hire and ability to maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• 5–10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, cyber analysis, security operations, vulnerability management, IT security, compliance, GRC, or a related field.
• Working knowledge of endpoint security, identity security, vulnerability management, incident response, risk analysis, and security operations.
• Experience with regulated-environment frameworks and requirements including NIST, CMMC, DFARS, ITAR/EAR, or CUI.
• Must be a U.S. Person under applicable ITAR/EAR requirements and eligible to obtain required export authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience with SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanning, GRC, ticketing, or cloud-security tools such as Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Splunk, Tenable, Rapid7, ServiceNow GRC, Archer, or Drata.
• Experience with Microsoft GCC High, Azure Government, FedRAMP, GovCloud, or secure collaboration environments.
• Security certifications such as Security+, CySA+, GSEC, CISA, CISM, CRISC, or CMMC RP.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible Time Off and programs supporting physical and mental well-being.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) plan with a 50% company match on contributions up to 8%.
• Flexible gym membership options and additional voluntary benefits.
• Work alongside a mission-driven team developing technologies for space, defense, and national security.