Network Security Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: Onsite in Austin, Texas

Company

hirify.global is a technology and professional services firm specializing in innovative technologies and nationwide technology management.

What you will do

• Monitor, investigate, and triage alerts from SIEM, EDR, cloud security, email security, identity protection, and network security platforms.
• Correlate events across endpoints, firewalls, IDS/IPS, cloud services, authentication systems, and threat intelligence feeds.
• Investigate indicators of compromise, phishing, malware, suspicious network activity, and anomalous user behavior.
• Support incident containment, eradication, recovery, escalation, and vulnerability remediation prioritization.
• Document investigations and response actions while improving alert tuning, playbooks, workflows, and detection processes.
• Research emerging threats and collaborate with security engineers, incident responders, administrators, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity operations, security monitoring, incident response, threat detection, or security investigations.
• Experience triaging security alerts, analyzing security events, documenting investigations, and distinguishing threats from false positives.
• Experience with one or more SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight, LogRhythm, or NetWitness.
• Experience with EDR tools and knowledge of IDS/IPS, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, email security, cloud security, or SASE solutions.
• Knowledge of Windows, Linux, networking protocols, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, cloud environments, enterprise security controls, and incident response frameworks.
• Ability to work independently and within a 24x7 cybersecurity operations team.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information security, computer science, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications such as Security+, GCIH, GCIA, CSA, or SC-200.
• Experience with KQL, Lucene, SPL, ESQL, PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• 5+ years of experience across the required technical areas.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Work within a 24x7 cybersecurity operations model.
• Collaborative environment involving technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Opportunity to support threat detection and incident response process improvement.