Senior SOC Analyst

Job Title

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Salary Range

$90,000.00 - $135,000.00

Overview

Conduct incident response activities: Participates in security incident response efforts, managing assigned incidents through the full handling lifecycle including identification, containment, eradication, and recovery in coordination with other SOC and Security Engineering team members. Perform detailed incident analysis: Analyzes host, network, and cloud telemetry to determine root cause, attack path, and impact of security events. Documents findings and maintains thorough incident records. Support Tier 2 SOC operations: Responds to escalated alerts, security tickets, and service requests, ensuring timely investigation, documentation, and remediation of potential threats within established service levels. Develop and maintain response playbooks: Contributes to the creation, refinement, and maintenance of incident response playbooks and procedures for various threat types to ensure consistent and effective handling of incidents. Enhance detection and response capabilities: Collaborates with Security Engineering teams to identify detection gaps, improve alerting logic, and drive automation within response workflows. Participate in post-incident reviews and knowledge sharing: Engages in lessons-learned activities, tracks remediation actions, and mentors SOC analysts to strengthen incident analysis and handling capabilities.

Required Skills and Abilities

1. Developed analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated full lifecycle security incident response experience. 2. Developed interpersonal, written, communication, presentation, and organizational skills. 3. Familiarity with systems analysis methods and techniques. 4. Project management skills.

Principal Responsibilities

1. Responsible for routine to moderately complex event and incident monitoring, threat detection and data correlation. 2. Assist with collecting potential breach evidence, participate in network and host forensic analysis, participate with incident remediation activities. 3. Meet with stakeholders to assess departments security requirements. 4. Assist in the development of security standards and best practices. 5. Research the latest information security trends and emerging threats.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree and four years of experience or equivalent education and experience.

Background Check Requirements

All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.

Health Requirements

Certain positions have associated health requirements based on specific job responsibilities. These may include vaccinations, tests, or examinations, as required by law, regulation, or university policy.

Posting Disclaimer

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through their hiring department. University policy is committed to affirmative action under law in employment of women, minority group members, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans. Additionally, in accordance with Yale's Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment, and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual's sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran. Inquiries concerning Yale's Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment may be referred to the Office of Institutional Equity and Accessibility (OIEA). Yale University is a tobacco-free campus.