Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Title: Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Location: Hybrid (Houston, TX or Little Rock, AR or New Orleans, LA)

Duration: Full Time

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 the 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.