Security Operations Center Analyst II

Heartland Business Systems

Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst II providing real-time security monitoring and threat hunting. Assisting customers in identifying potential security incidents and resolving computer security incidents.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeSpringfield • Montana • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provides security event monitoring and analysis to identify critical security events at client sites.
Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources.
Coordinate with customer staff to validate security alerts.
Document and escalate incidents that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.
Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources to gain situational awareness.
Receive and analyze network alerts and determine possible causes.
Provides recommendations for system tuning and enhancements.
Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited and effects on system and information.
Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a variety of all source data sets.
Notify customer of suspected cyber incidents and articulate the event’s history and potential impact.
Work with customers to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance.
Provide guidance and expertise to SOC Analyst I’s and other team members.
Participate in an on-call rotation.
Commits changes to DevOps repositories and syncs global changes to client environments.
Serve as the primary person for onboarding new clients into various services.
Writes new analytics rules, log parsers, and workbooks.
Performs proactive threat hunting.
Serves as a technical resource for the Sales team during the sales process.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Associate of Applied Science (AAS) or bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
1+ years working within a security operations center
Experience with security tools

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equal Opportunity Employer - Including Disabled and Veterans

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Hard Skills & Tools

security event monitoringnetwork traffic analysisevent correlationincident documentationthreat analysissystem tuningmalicious activity analysisanalytics rules writinglog parsingproactive threat hunting

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcustomer serviceteam leadership

Certifications

Associate of Applied Science (AAS)bachelor’s degree