Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Title: Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
Location: Houston, TX (Local candidates Only)

ComTec is looking for a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to lead advanced incident response, threat hunting, and security automation in an SOC environment, protecting critical IT infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:

• Investigate security incidents including malware, phishing, and unauthorized access.

• Perform forensic and network analysis to identify root cause.

• Develop and maintain SOC playbooks, detections, and response procedures.

• Create and manage SIEM detections and improve SOC automation using SOAR.

• Continuously monitor the threat landscape and map adversary TTPs using the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

• Support threat hunting activities and improve detection coverage.

• Actively participate in tabletop exercises, attack simulations, and training programs to enhance CSOC readiness.

• Provide cloud security monitoring and improve incident response maturity.

• Prepare incident reports, metrics, and post-incident reviews.

• Lead post-incident reviews to capture lessons learned

• Mentor junior analysts and collaborate across IT, OT and business teams.

• On-call rotation every 4-6 weeks.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of cyber security experience, across multiple disciplines (incident response, threat hunting, monitoring, log gathering, event correlation, configuration, network security, etc.).

• Hands-on experience with SIEM, SOAR, IDS/IPS and network investigations.

• Experience with Splunk and/or CrowdStrike.

• Working knowledge of cloud security monitoring.

• Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK framework and attack techniques.

• Expertise in advanced cyber-attack analysis with the ability to support internal, regulatory, and law-enforcement investigations.

• Highly collaborative and able to work cross-functionally.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

• Self-motivated, resourceful and customer-focused with a strong sense of ownership.