Senior Security Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: Daytona Beach, Florida, USA, or Plano, Texas, USA

Company

Brown & Brown provides an enterprise environment where security operations support organizational resilience and customer protection.

What you will do

• Monitor alerts, events, and logs across endpoint, network, cloud, identity, email, and application security platforms.
• Triage, investigate, validate, and escalate suspicious activity and security incidents.
• Collect and analyze forensic evidence, preserve artifacts, and support containment and recovery.
• Use threat intelligence and internal context to assess emerging threats, attacker tactics, and indicators of compromise.
• Review and tune detection content, use cases, and alert logic with engineering and platform teams.
• Conduct threat hunting and report incidents, findings, trends, metrics, vulnerabilities, and risk-related analysis.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, threat monitoring, or cyber defense for a large organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Working knowledge of SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, DLP, vulnerability management, email security, and threat intelligence platforms.
• Strong understanding of incident triage, alert validation, kill-chain analysis, insider threat, risk assessment, and security metrics.
• Experience with incident handling, NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, attack paths, threat vectors, attacker TTPs, and investigative methods.
• Ability to write queries, analyze logs, build reports, or use basic scripting for investigations and operational efficiency.

Nice to have

• Active security certification such as GCIH, GCIA, CISSP, CEH, or a related certification.
• Experience with CrowdStrike, Google SecOps, Microsoft Log Analytics, and ServiceNow.
• Experience investigating Microsoft security ecosystems, including Entra ID and Defender, in cloud or hybrid environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan, 401(k), student loan assistance, and tuition reimbursement.
• Free mental health and enhanced advocacy services.
• Paid time off, holidays, and preferred partner discounts.