Tier 3 SOC Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: Onsite in Washington, DC 20003, United States. Work schedule is 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. Applicants must be US citizens or green card holders.

Salary: $60.00/hour on W2 or $65.00/hour on 1099.

Company

hirify.global provides technology and cybersecurity services, including security operations and technical support for enterprise and government environments.

What you will do

• Monitor, detect, analyze, remediate, and report on cybersecurity events and incidents affecting the District of Columbia technology infrastructure.
• Review escalated events from Tier 2 analysts, distinguish benign activity from confirmed incidents, and coordinate escalation to the Incident Response Lead.
• Correlate logs, alerts, and event data from diverse network devices and applications to identify incidents and recommend remediation.
• Conduct proactive searches for undetected threats and analyze threat intelligence, indicators of compromise, vulnerabilities, and attacker techniques.
• Tune security tools and detection rules, reduce false positives, and develop related response procedures, SOPs, and runbooks.
• Provide expert technical support to enterprise technicians and staff, quality-check SOC advisories, and recommend improvements to incident handling.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least five years of operational experience as a cybersecurity analyst or engineer handling and coordinating incidents in critical environments.
• Advanced experience with SIEM, IDS/IPS, firewalls, NAC, DLP, DAM, content filtering, vulnerability scanning, and endpoint protection technologies.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocols, networking, forensic analysis, intrusion detection, log analysis, penetration testing, and vulnerability management.
• Ability to analyze threats such as DDoS, phishing, ransomware, botnets, command-and-control activity, network probing, and scanning.
• Must be a US citizen or green card holder and work onsite in Washington, DC.

Nice to have

• SANS GCIA, GCED, GPEN, GCIH, or a similar industry certification.
• Experience with secure coding, real-time databases, real-time network and serial communications, or real-time graphics and logic applications.

Culture & Benefits

• Work directly with SOC analysts, incident response leadership, engineers, enterprise technicians, and internal technology teams.
• Engage in a structured environment with documented standards, procedures, SOPs, and runbooks.
• W2 and 1099 engagement options are available.
• An extensive national criminal background check is required before starting; recent criminal activity may disqualify candidates.

Hiring process

• Interviews may be conducted by webcam or in person.
• Selected candidates must complete the required national criminal background check before starting.