Cybersecurity Analyst (Remote)

SOLV Energy is a leading provider of infrastructure services to the power industry, designing, building and maintaining utility scale solar, battery storage and high voltage substation projects nationwide.

Job Description Summary:

The primary responsibility of this role is to monitor, triage, analyze, and investigate security alerts and identified vulnerabilities across the organization's technology environment. This includes validating alerts, conducting log and endpoint analysis, performing threat hunting activities, supporting digital forensics investigations, and leveraging data analytics to identify patterns of malicious activity.

In addition to operational response duties, this position is responsible for continuously improving security monitoring and detection capabilities, identifying and closing visibility gaps, strengthening defensive controls, and proactively protecting company systems and data from emerging cyber threats.

This role is fully remote. Specific location details and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

Job Description:

*This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned

Position Responsibilities and Duties

•  Evaluate, document, and respond to recommendations or alerts from internal security tools and Managed Security Services Provider  

• Monitor and analyze security logs and alerts to proactively detect, respond, and assist other IT team members with potential security incidents 

• Conduct regular security assessments and audits to identify vulnerabilities and recommend/take action on appropriate remediation measures 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and implement comprehensive cybersecurity strategies, policies, and procedures 

• Act as part of the SecOps team and ensure continuous compliance with all security requirements

• Proactively identify gaps or conflicts in existing processes and help develop and suggest solutions

• Provide guidance and recommendations on the secure deployment of new technologies and systems within the organization 

• Assist with other security aspects, including vendor security assessments and audit needs 

• Assist with the education and training of process/control owners to better understand technology control frameworks and their responsibilities 

• Generate regular reports and technical documentation for the SecOps team 

• Support the full incident response lifecycle: identification, containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned 

• Review detections for tuning opportunities, with an understanding of how they align to the MITRE ATT&CK framework 

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of incident response plans and business continuity strategies 

• Participate in an on-call rotation for security incident response 

  

Minimum Skills or Experience Requirements:

•  Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Information Security, Cybersecurity or related field and/or equivalent experience 

•  3+ years of progressively more responsibility in directly related work 

• Two or more years of experience in utilizing enterprise security solutions including but not limited to SIEM, security detection and response tools, and endpoint security products (Defender, Crowdstrike)

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft 365 Defender including incident response, threat hunting and vulnerability management 

• Basic scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, KQL) 

• Experience with email security solutions (Defender, Abnormal, ProofPoint)

• Experience in developing and updating Incident Response plans and runbooks 

• Familiarity with common network, system and web application attacks and mitigations 

• Familiarity with cloud security concepts (Azure preferred) 

• Knowledge of Information Security standard