SOC Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: Los Angeles, United States; in-person collaboration at the Playa Vista office

Salary: $88,000–$121,000 annual base salary, excluding additional benefits

Company

Develops and manufactures satellite buses at scale through software, vertical integration, and manufacturing-focused hardware for earth observation, communications, and other space applications.

What you will do

• Monitor and triage security alerts from CrowdStrike, Elastic SIEM, Microsoft Identity, AWS, and Palo Alto.
• Investigate suspicious logins, phishing emails, privilege changes, and unusual network events.
• Scope and escalate incidents based on affected systems, severity, and CUI impact.
• Collaborate with IT, cybersecurity, and network teams on findings involving systems and infrastructure.
• Document incidents, resolutions, affected assets, evidence, and vulnerability-management findings.
• Maintain recurring logging reviews and incident-response documentation supporting compliance reporting.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance required at the time of hire.
• US Citizenship required.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience in a SOC, incident response, threat detection, endpoint security, vulnerability management, or related cybersecurity operations role.
• Experience investigating events with EDR, SIEM, identity, cloud, or network telemetry.
• Working knowledge of Windows, Linux, authentication, endpoint behavior, networking fundamentals, attacker techniques, and cloud logging.
• Ability to write SIEM or log-analysis queries and document investigations, including triage, containment, evidence preservation, escalation, vulnerability prioritization, and remediation.

Nice to have

• Experience with CrowdStrike Falcon, Palo Alto, Tenable, Elastic Security, Microsoft GCC High, Entra ID, AWS security telemetry, or similar tools.
• Experience with detection engineering, threat hunting, MITRE ATT&CK, or scripting in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Security+, CySA+, GCIH, GCIA, or comparable security operations certification.
• Experience in aerospace, defense, national security, ATO, RMF, or other regulated technical environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity participation and a fast-growing startup environment.
• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents, plus life insurance.
• Paid vacation, company holidays, paid parental leave, and childcare reimbursement for work-related travel.
• 401(k) plan with employer matching.
• Daily catered lunch, unlimited snacks, office socials, sports activities, and family gatherings.
• Playa Vista office, in-person collaboration, work-life flexibility, and a fully equipped workspace.