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These Essential Functions, Requirements, and Skills are guidelines. If you are a candidate who does not meet this exact job description but can demonstrate excellent organization, attention to detail, professionalism, flexibility, and self-direction in your professional background, we hope you apply. SRA values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, and veterans to apply.
Summary/Objective
The Cybersecurity Operations Consultant is an entry-level role on Security Risk Advisors’ CyberSOC team. You will help monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across endpoint, network, identity, and cloud data sources, and you will document and communicate findings suitable for client consumption. This role supports 24x7 SOC operations and provides exposure to multiple client environments, modern security tooling, and structured mentorship and training.
Requirements
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Continuously monitor and triage security alerts across endpoint, network, identity, and cloud telemetry.
Investigate alerts to determine severity, scope, and whether activity is benign, suspicious, or malicious; escalate per documented procedures.
Perform initial incident response support activities such as evidence collection, timeline development, and basic containment recommendations under supervision.
Use SIEM, EDR, NDR/NSM, and SOAR platforms to detect, investigate, and respond to threats; examples include Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel (SIEM), CrowdStrike Falcon or Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (EDR).
Leverage threat intelligence and common frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK) to enrich investigations and communicate attacker behavior clearly.
Thoroughly document work in case management systems, including investigation steps taken, evidence reviewed, decisions made, and recommended next actions.
Communicate status and findings to internal leadership and clients with professionalism and clarity (written and verbal).
Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying recurring false positives/noisy alerts and providing feedback for tuning and playbook updates.
Maintain proficiency through required training, labs, and knowledge sharing; follow policies to protect confidential information.
Supervisory Responsibility
Not applicable.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment or remotely as needed/required. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. This is a largely sedentary role.
Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply and email careers@sra.io with any questions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable disabled individuals to perform the essential functions of this role.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position with 40 working hours expected weekly, typically worked over five…