Early Career Consult Program – Cybersecurity Defense Associate

Location: Dallas (USDALFRI) Frisco AI HUB, United States

Salary: $77,000 per year, plus eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus.

Company

hirify.global operates and modernizes mission-critical technology systems for leading businesses, using AI-powered insights to support smarter decisions and faster innovation.

What you will do

• Monitor and analyze security events across networks, endpoints, cloud environments, and enterprise systems.
• Investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents using established incident management processes.
• Support threat hunting by identifying advanced threats, indicators of compromise, suspicious activity, and attacker patterns.
• Use EDR, NDR, SIEM, and related tools to detect, investigate, and contain threats.
• Assess vulnerabilities, support remediation, and assist with cybersecurity tool deployment and configuration.
• Document investigations and collaborate with security operations, infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to improve resilience.

Requirements

• Foundational experience in cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, or a related security role.
• Knowledge of network, endpoint, cloud, infrastructure, and security monitoring principles.
• Understanding of incident response, vulnerability management, threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence, and digital forensics fundamentals.
• Experience or working knowledge of EDR, NDR, SIEM, or related security technologies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in a managed security services, SOC, or cybersecurity operations environment.
• Experience with cloud security, Zero Trust, cyber resiliency, DevSecOps, IoT security, or AI-related security technologies.
• Experience with advanced threat hunting, security investigations, UEBA, enterprise incident response, or recovery activities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Cybersecurity certifications such as Security+, CySA+, ECTHP, or ECMAP.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical and dental coverage, disability benefits, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off.
• Annual discretionary bonus eligibility based on performance.
• Career development through personalized goals, continuous feedback, coaching, certifications, and hands-on learning.
• Access to certification opportunities involving Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.
• Inclusive, collaborative culture focused on belonging, empathy, learning, and shared success.