Cybersecurity for the public good.
At nuHarbor, we help organizations navigate an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape with confidence. By combining expert guidance, innovative technology, and trusted partnerships, we make security stronger, more effective, and easier to understand. We're looking for talented individuals who are passionate about solving meaningful challenges, helping clients succeed, and continuously improving alongside a team that values curiosity, collaboration, and impact.
The Opportunity
The Senior Security Analyst is a senior individual contributor within the NuHarbor Managed Services Security Operations team. This role serves as the technical anchor on shift, conducting deep investigations, producing client-ready documentation, and actively raising the quality of the team's work through mentorship and technical shift ownership. Senior Security Analysts are expected to operate with minimal direction, self-assign to the most complex open problems, and deliver work that reflects NuHarbor's commitment to technical excellence and client outcomes
Shift
First (1st) Shift Honolulu, Hawaii | Monday - Friday 1:00pm - 9:30pm ET .
What you will do
Live by the NuHarbor corporate values: Help Clients Win, Always Improve, Protect the House.
Own investigations end-to-end from initial alert through root cause analysis, attack chain reconstruction, and client-ready written narrative.
Correlate across SIEM, EDR, and identity telemetry to identify what alerts missed, not just what they flagged.
Self-assign to difficult, ambiguous, or high-priority work without requiring direction, including work that falls outside defined lanes.
Support the Security Analyst team with alert triage, classification, disposition, and escalation within SLA requirements.
Identify and communicate security gaps and mitigations in the context of client environments.
Communicate proactively with the Security Operations Manager on active threats, escalations, and items requiring leadership visibility.
Facilitate client-facing meetings including incident briefings, escalation reviews, and threat landscape discussions.
Produce ticket documentation that requires no editorial cleanup, every ticket must include an evidence trail, analyst reasoning, disposition rationale, and a plain-language client summary
Remain current on emerging threats, CVEs, and attacker techniques relevant to client environments.
Support the onboarding of new clients onto NuHarbor Security Services and Platforms.
Train, mentor, and support junior analysts, including structured coaching on investigation methodology, documentation standards, and client communication.
Review escalations to clients from junior analysts prior to client delivery, ensuring investigative completeness and documentation quality.
Develop and refine automation playbooks to reduce alert volume and improve analyst workflow.
Contribute tuning feedback, noise identification, and alert fidelity assessments to the Detection Engineering program, in coordination with DE leadership.
Develop recommendations and enhancements to mature a client’s cybersecurity program.
Your Foundation
We're looking for someone who brings these minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree and five (5) years of experience. Experience should be in a cybersecurity field and should include relevant industry certifications.
In lieu of a degree, two (2) years of experience in a related technology field and relevant industry certifications are required.
Demonstrated experience with SOC operations, executing security event triaging and tuning.
Demonstrated experience writing runbooks and support procedures.
Demonstrated experience executing Monitoring and Response across multiple phases, containment, eradication, and recovery, in a SOC or MSSP environment.
Demonstrated experience with security event triaging and threat hunting executed through both a SIEM and EDR toolset.
Hands on experience with at least two of the following Endpoint…