Lead Security Operations Analyst

Title: Lead Security Operations Analyst

Location: Houston, TX or Austin, TX (Must reside locally for occasional in-person office meetings; otherwise offers work-from-home flexibility)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Industry: Professional Services / Enterprise Environment

Compensation: $110,000 - 150,000 + Comprehensive Benefits Package

No C2C at this time

Overview

Our client is seeking a Senior Information Security Analyst to join a mature and growing Security Operations team responsible for monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to cybersecurity threats across a global enterprise environment.

This is an opportunity for a hands-on security professional who enjoys leading investigations, mentoring analysts, improving detection capabilities, and helping shape the future of security operations. The ideal candidate will bring deep experience working within Microsoft security technologies and can operate independently in a fast-paced environment with minimal oversight.

The team is heavily invested in security automation, threat detection, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, and AI-enabled security operations, creating an opportunity to contribute to both day-to-day security operations and long-term strategic security initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigation and response efforts for complex security incidents across endpoint, cloud, identity, email, and network environments.
• Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts generated by SIEM, EDR, and other security monitoring tools.
• Serve as a technical escalation point and mentor for junior security analysts.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities to identify malicious activity not detected through existing controls.
• Build, tune, and maintain detection rules, monitoring logic, and security use cases.
• Support phishing, impersonation, business email compromise, and social engineering investigations.
• Develop and improve security automation workflows, response playbooks, and SOAR capabilities.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure

  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.