What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cyber Security Analyst position at 22nd Century Technologies Inc.?
Description:
General Summary
The Cybersecurity Analyst (L2) owns escalated alerts and confirmed incidents that clear front-line triage, investigating and driving them to resolution.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Own escalated alerts and confirmed incidents that clear front-line triage — investigate, scope impact, and drive them to resolution.
• Serve as the escalation point for the L1 triage analysts, including phishing intake, providing guidance and quality control.
• Investigate across the full appliance stack Eng maintains — EDR, SIEM, firewall, email security, and identity/access — correlating signal across tools rather than working alerts in isolation.
• Participate in coverage that spans business hours.
• Feed real investigation findings back to Detection Engineering so tuning reflects what's actually happening on the floor, not just theoretical use-cases.
• Work alongside the Cybersecurity Engineer team to validate and refine agent-assisted alert triage.
• Document findings clearly enough to support incident response, audit, and handoff to after-hours team.
• Work with the SOC Lead to create documented alert triage workflows.
Required Knowledge and Attributes
• Sound judgment on when to dig in independently versus loop in Detection Engineering, Eng, or the automation team.
• Willingness to work alongside AI-assisted triage tooling and give the engineers building it real, specific feedback.
• Clear written communication; documenting incidents that other teams and auditors will read.
Required Education and Experience
• 2-4 years hands-on experience triaging, investigating, and escalating security alerts in a SOC or equivalent operations environment.
• Working fluency across core security tooling — EDR, SIEM/log analysis, network/firewall traffic, email security, and identity systems.
• Working Knowledge of Crowdstrike, Darktrace and/or Splunk is a big plus.
Physical Requirements and Working Condition
Staff in this class are subject to extended periods of sitting, standing and walking, vision to monitor and moderate noise levels. Work is performed in an office environment
Salary : $70 - $85