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Security Analyst

Beacon Hill
Sacramento, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/2/2025

Required Skills :

  • 4 years of experience :
  • Monitoring security alerts : understanding negatives, false / positives, and if positive alert know how to respond to that alert. Analysis and investigation of security alert experience is required.
  • Threat detection and hunting
  • Incident response
  • Monitor and analyze security logs
  • Scripting to set up detection alerts : creating rules or alerts for investigating
  • KQL, Python (to automate alerts), SQL, Powershell, Linux (any flavor)
  • SIEM tools : any tool experience is okay
  • Example : Splunk, Sumo Logic, IBM QRadar

Bonus Skills :

  • Microsoft tool experience :
  • Sentinel, Defender (EDR / XDR tool), Entra, Purview (DLP tool)
  • CompTIA Security
  • More experience is higher priority over certificates
  • GitHub or portfolio of projects : detection rule set up, scripting, or data science
  • Bachelors Degree
  • Responsibilities :

  • Incident alerts, prioritizing threats, looking at phishing email analysis and responding.
  • 20% monitoring alerts, 30% incident response, but when threat immediate high threat 100% of day.
  • Threat hunting, monitoring and responding
  • Automation will be key here : setting up good policies in place, setting up strong alerts, setting up good detection.
  • Most common threats :
  • Malware detection
  • Brute force attack : when attacker is trying to log in to multiple devices at once by trying to guess passwords
  • Session token attacking
  • Beacon Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply.

    California residents : Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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    Company Profile :

    Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs.

    Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming / Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production / Support and ERP roles.

    Learn more about Beacon Hill and our specialty divisions, Beacon Hill Associates, Beacon Hill Financial, Beacon Hill HR, Beacon Hill Legal, Beacon Hill Life Sciences and Beacon Hill Technologies by visiting .

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