Cyber Operations Analyst

Responsibilities Review and triage findings from Threat Exposure Management platforms. Validate findings to determine whether they are accurate, actionable, duplicate, accepted risk, or false positives. Prioritize exposures based on exploitability, asset criticality, business impact, compensating controls, and likelihood of attack. Correlate exposure findings across multiple tools such as vulnerability management, EDR, identity, email security, cloud security, external attack surface, and network security platforms. Create clear, actionable remediation tasks for infrastructure, endpoint, identity, cloud, and application teams. Track remediation progress and follow up with asset owners until findings are resolved, mitigated, or risk accepted. Document analysis notes, ownership, risk rationale, and recommended next steps within the exposure management workflow. Identify trends in recurring findings and recommend process improvements to reduce repeat exposure. Assist with executive and operational reporting, including exposure status, aging, remediation progress, risk reduction, and high-priority findings. Support Cyber Operations with prioritization of findings tied to active threats, known exploited vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity risks, and internet-facing exposure. Partner with internal teams to clarify technical findings and help translate them into business-relevant risk. Qualifications & Experience Experience with Nagomi or similar Threat Exposure Management / Continuous Threat Exposure Management platforms. Experience with tools such as CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Wiz, Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Microsoft Defender, ServiceNow, Jira, or similar platforms. Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, KEV catalog, exploitability scoring, asset criticality, and risk-based vulnerability management. Experience supporting SOC, Cyber Operations, or Cyber Engineering teams. Familiarity with cloud, identity, endpoint, email, and network security findings. 3+ years of experience in cyber operations, vulnerability management, threat exposure management, security operations, or related security roles. Experience reviewing and prioritizing security findings from enterprise security platforms. Strong understanding of vulnerabilities, CVEs, misconfigurations, attack paths, exposed services, identity risks, and asset criticality. Ability to determine whether a finding represents real risk or operational noise. Experience working with remediation owners across infrastructure, endpoint, cloud, network, and identity teams. Strong analytical and documentation skills. Ability to communicate technical risk in a clear, simple, and actionable way. Experience using ticketing or workflow platforms to track remediation activity. Comfortable working independently and managing large volumes of findings. Entry Level position. Job Type & Location Contract position based out of McKinney, TX. Hybrid workplace. Pay & Benefits Pay range: $45.00 - $60.00/hr. Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan – pre‑tax and Roth post‑tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long‑term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Equal Opportunity Employer The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr