Security Operations Analyst - Remote

Overview

As a Security Operations Analyst at Quanata, you will serve as a frontline defender within our Security Operations Center (SOC), responsible for monitoring alerts, investigating threats, and supporting the effectiveness of our detection and response workflows.

In Short

• Monitor and triage alerts using SIEM, endpoint, and cloud security platforms.
• Investigate anomalous activity and escalate incidents according to defined runbooks.
• Track investigations and incident status using Jira or other case management tools.
• Collaborate with IT and engineering teams to validate and remediate alerts.
• Support incident response, including containment and root cause analysis.
• Identify trends in alert fatigue and contribute to tuning and detection improvements.
• Maintain and improve SOC playbooks, runbooks, and detection documentation.
• Participate in security incident postmortems and response exercises.
• Support the security evaluation of third-party commercial products.
• Contribute to threat-informed detection development and SLA tracking.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in security operations or incident response.
• Experience monitoring and responding to security incidents in on-premises and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with security tools like SIEM, EDR, CSPM, and DLP.
• Experience with Jira-based triage workflows.
• Strong understanding of security principles and common attack vectors.
• Analytical thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
• Effective communicator for technical findings.
• Proactive, organized, and adaptable in a fast-moving environment.

Benefits

• Wide variety of health, wellness, and other benefits.
• Work from home equipment reimbursement of $2K.
• Four weeks of PTO in the first year.
• Twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Up to $5000 each year for professional learning and development.