Junior Security Analyst (Remote)

Applicants can apply, onboard and pick up shifts through our mobile app. We put over 80,000 people to work each week in industrial, office, IT and healthcare roles. We started in 2005 and have grown to about 340 people. Recruiters are measured on fills, starts and retention past 90 days.

Role overview

Taylor Staffing is hiring for the Junior Security Analyst (Remote) role to monitor, investigate and respond to security alerts across our environment.

Key responsibilities

• Write and update SOC runbooks and playbooks.
• Monitor and triage alerts in Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar or Elastic SIEM.
• Pull evidence for SOC 2, PCI DSS or HIPAA audit requests.
• Run vulnerability scans with Tenable Nessus, Qualys or Rapid7 and track remediation with system owners.
• Analyze reported phishing emails, check headers and URLs, and purge malicious messages.

Required qualifications

• 1-2 years in an SOC, security analyst or IT security role.
• Experience reading Windows Event Logs, Sysmon and Linux logs.
• Working knowledge of SIEM and EDR tools.
• Must be able to pass a background check.
• Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (or ability to obtain within six months)
• Basic scripting in PowerShell or Python.

Preferred qualifications

• Cloud log analysis (CloudTrail, Entra ID sign-in logs)
• Prior help desk or network administration experience.
• SOAR platforms such as Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR or Tines.
• KQL or SPL query writing.

The salary range for this role is $85,000 - $113,000 a year. This range reflects base salary only.

Compensation and benefits

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid sick leave.
• Professional development budget.

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Taylor Staffing LLC.