Cyber Security Analyst

About the Role

We are seeking a Cyber Security Analyst to help defend our information and technology infrastructure. You will monitor, investigate, and respond to security alerts; perform incident containment and escalation; apply threat intelligence; and support access control and detection improvements.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and triage security alerts from platforms such as Office 365, Defender, and Managed Detection Response (MDR) applications.
• Correlate logs across endpoints, servers, firewalls, proxies, and cloud services to identify potential threats.
• Investigate events and determine appropriate containment or escalation actions for low to moderate-risk incidents.
• Escalate confirmed or high-impact incidents to senior cyber security team members.
• Document findings, actions, and outcomes in case management systems.
• Apply threat intelligence to proactively identify indicators of compromise across systems.
• Support Active Directory role-based access control (RBAC) initiatives by flagging misalignments and risks.
• Participate in tuning alerts, improving detection logic, and suggesting automation opportunities.
• Collaborate with help desk and IT support to notify impacted users or clarify false positives.