Security & Network Analyst II

Security & Network Analyst II Under intermediate supervision, the Security & Network Analyst II supports cybersecurity operations by monitoring security events, identifying potential threats, and assisting with incident response activities. This role supports threat detection and incident response efforts, collaborates with security engineers and analysts to improve security controls, and contributes to threat hunting and detection tuning initiatives. The Security Analyst II applies developing expertise to identify risks, strengthen defenses, and enhance the organization's overall security posture. Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions Support security and network operations activities with a focus on threat detection, cyber defense, incident response, and maintaining the security and availability of enterprise systems. Monitor, investigate, and resolve alerts from SIEM, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, firewall, vulnerability management, identity, cloud security, and network monitoring platforms. Analyze logs, endpoint telemetry, authentication records, firewall events, DNS activity, proxy logs, packet captures, and network flow data to identify security threats, operational issues, and performance concerns. Investigate and manage assigned tickets, including suspicious activity reports, security alerts, vulnerability findings, VPN issues, access requests, connectivity problems, and service interruptions. Conduct incident response activities, including event analysis, scopi