Security Investigator

Security Investigator

Immediate need for a talented Security Investigator. This is a 06+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta, GA (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested. Pay Range: $60 - $65/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Triage, analyze, investigate, escalate, and document insider threat and information security alerts generated from enterprise security tooling.
• Act as an escalation point for alerts originating from XSOAR, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and insider threat monitoring platforms.
• Conduct end-to-end insider threat and information security investigations, including employee-driven data loss or exfiltration and unauthorized access to systems or sensitive data.
• Correlate signals across endpoint, identity, network, email, and collaboration data sources to establish investigative findings.
• Collect, analyze, and preserve evidence while maintaining documentation and chain of custody standards.
• Prepare clear, audit-defensible investigative summaries with findings, conclusions, and recommended actions.
• Coordinate investigative outcomes with Insider Threat leadership, Human Resources, Legal, Compliance, and Corporate Investigations.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• College degree or equivalent education, training, or work-related experience.
• Banking or financial services experience, including regulatory or audit exposure.
• Prior collaboration with Human Resources, Legal, Compliance, or Financial Crimes teams.
• Experience with insider threat, UEBA, or advanced security analytics platforms.
• 7+ years of experience in insider threat investigations, information security or cybersecurity investigations, financial crimes or corporate investigations, or security operations/incident response.
• Strong hands-on experience conducting end-to-end DLP / Information Security investigations.
• Experience investigating data loss, data compromise, data exfiltration, and unauthorized access.
• Ability to perform investigative steps independently, beyond initial alert triage.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience triaging and investigating security alerts using enterprise security platforms.
• Working knowledge and investigative use of XSOAR, CrowdStrike, and Anvilogic.
• Proven ability to correlate multi-source security telemetry into actionable investigative findings.
• Experience operating in high-tempo investigative or security environments.