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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.\nKey Responsibilities & Essential Functions\nSupport security and network operations activities with a focus on threat detection, cyber defense, incident response, and maintaining the security and availability of enterprise systems.\nMonitor, investigate, and resolve alerts from SIEM, EDR/XDR, IDS/IPS, firewall, vulnerability management, identity, cloud security, and network monitoring platforms.\nAnalyze 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.\nInvestigate and manage assigned tickets, including suspicious activity reports, security alerts, vulnerability findings, VPN issues, access requests, connectivity problems, and service interruptions.\nConduct incident response activities, including event analysis, scoping, evidence collection, documentation, containment support, escalation, and post-incident follow-up in accordance with established procedures.\nTroubleshoot issues involving DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, firewall policies, VPN connectivity, wireless networks, identity services, endpoints, and application access.\nEvaluate false positives, benign activity, policy violations, operational issues, and security incidents requiring escalation or response.\nEscalate complex technical issues to Security Engineering, Network Engineering, Infrastructure, or application support teams with appropriate documentation, supporting evidence, and impact assessments.\nAssist with identifying recurring issues, monitoring gaps, alert quality concerns, and process improvement opportunities; recommend enhancements to strengthen operational effectiveness and security visibility.\nSupport vulnerability management activities by validating findings, assessing exposure, assisting with remediation prioritization, and tracking resolution efforts.\nAssist with firewall rule reviews, VPN troubleshooting, network segmentation validation, access control issues, implementation testing, and post-change monitoring with minimal oversight.\nCollaborate with Security Engineering, Network Engineering, Infrastructure, and application teams to improve security monitoring, detection capabilities, operational procedures, and incident response processes.\nCreate and maintain investigation notes, knowledge base articles, troubleshooting guides, operational procedures, and incident documentation with minimal oversight.\nProvide guidance and knowledge sharing to less experienced analysts and contribute to team training initiatives when needed.\nParticipate in security projects, technology implementations, and continuous improvement efforts to enhance cybersecurity and network operations capabilities.\nPerform other duties as assigned.\nKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities\nBachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred. A combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.\nThree or more years of experience in technology, cybersecurity operations, network operations, infrastructure support, incident response, or a closely related technical role.\nIntermediate knowledge related to SOC, NOC, security operations, network operations, managed security, enterprise infrastructure, or hybrid security/network operations environment preferred.\nDemonstrated ability to work independently on complex tickets, alerts, incidents, and troubleshooting tasks with limited supervision and strong judgment on when to escalate.\nIntermediate Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, VPNs, firewalls, proxy services, wireless networking, endpoint security, identity and access management, and common enterprise security controls.\nIntermediate experience using several of the following tools preferred: SIEM (e.g., Splunk), EDR/XDR (e.g., Microsoft Defender, Cortex XDR), firewall management platforms (e.g., Palo Alto Panorama/PA firewalls, Cisco firewalls), vulnerability scanners (e.g., Tenable), email/phishing security tools (e.g., PhishER), IDS/IPS, packet capture tools, network monitoring systems, log analysis platforms, ITSM/ticketing systems, and cloud security or infrastructure monitoring tools.\nExperience to analyze endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and application telemetry to identify anomalous activity, unauthorized access, malware behavior, phishing, credential abuse, lateral movement, vulnerability exploitation, or service degradation.\nAbility to perform structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across security, network, endpoint, identity, and application layers.\nExperience supporting incident response activities such as alert validation, event correlation, impact assessment, containment coordination, evidence collection, timeline development, and post-incident documentation.\nExperience reviewing or supporting firewall policies, VPN access, network segmentation, remote access technologies, and secure connectivity workflows preferred.\nUnderstanding of frameworks and models such as NIST NICE, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-53, CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, or similar operational security frameworks preferred.\nExperience supporting hybrid cloud or SaaS environments such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, Okta, Entra ID, or similar platforms preferred.\nExperience with scripting, automation, or query languages such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, KQL, SPL, SQL, SOAR playbooks, or API-based workflows preferred.\nSecurity, network, or cyber defense certification(s) preferred, such as Security+, Network+, CySA+, SSCP, GSEC, CCNA, or equivalent experience.\nA track record of taking initiative, being resourceful, and consistently improving alert quality, documentation, troubleshooting processes, and operational outcomes.\nEffective organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities in a high-volume ticket and alert environment.\nAbility to establish and maintain productive relationships with internal customers, engineers, vendors, leadership, and cross-functional technology teams.\nCareer ladder readiness - demonstrated interest and capability to progress into a Security & Network Analyst II role by developing implementation, automation, design validation, and technical ownership skills.\nDelivery - delivery skills including the ability to manage tickets and investigations at a steady, predictable pace; document work clearly; identify important tradeoffs; and complete operational work while contributing to durable process improvements.\nDomain Expertise - Experience demonstrating domain expertise including the ability to understand immediate systems, recognize relationships with adjacent systems, stay aware of security and network trends, and apply technical knowledge to business priorities.\nProblem Solving - A problem solver who breaks small or ambiguous issues into manageable investigative steps, recognizes mistakes as learning opportunities, and recommends solutions that reduce recurrence and improve long-term reliability.\nCommunication - Strong communicator who can articulate technical findings clearly and concisely, collaborate as both mentor and mentee, ask clarifying questions when requirements are vague, provide appropriate feedback, receive constructive criticism, and make space for colleagues to contribute.\nA desire for continuous education - Technology doesn’t stand still and neither does the JAX Security and Network teams.\nPay range: $74,772 - $125,184\nAbout JAX:\nThe Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution with a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and nearly 3,000 employees in locations across the United States (Maine, Connecticut, California, New York, Florida), Japan and China. Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.\nFounded in 1929, JAX applies over nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease. It models and interprets genomic complexity, integrates basic research with clinical application, educates current and future scientists, and provides critical data, tools and services to the global biomedical community. 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