
CyberSOC Consultant
Security Risk Advisors
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Philadelphia • New York • Pennsylvania • United States
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About the role
- Help monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across endpoint, network, identity, and cloud data sources.
- Document and communicate findings suitable for client consumption.
- Support 24x7 SOC operations and provide exposure to multiple client environments.
- Use SIEM, EDR, NDR/NSM, and SOAR platforms to detect, investigate, and respond to threats.
- Leverage threat intelligence and common frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK) to enrich investigations and communicate attacker behavior clearly.
- Thoroughly document work in case management systems including investigation steps taken, evidence reviewed, decisions made, and recommended next actions.
- Communicate status and findings to internal leadership and clients with professionalism and clarity (written and verbal).
- Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying recurring false positives/noisy alerts and providing feedback for tuning and playbook updates.
- Maintain proficiency through required training, labs, and knowledge sharing; follow policies to protect confidential information.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, IT Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 1-3 years of professional experience, campus applicants are welcome.
- Punctuality and timely attendance to external client and internal stakeholder needs.
- Coursework, labs, internship, or work experience in one or more of: incident investigation, digital forensics fundamentals, information security, systems administration, or computer networking.
- Familiarity with common log sources and security concepts (e.g., authentication logs, Windows event logs, DNS, HTTP, email security).
- Comfort learning new tools and following documented processes; strong attention to detail and case documentation habits.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a high level of professionalism in client-facing environments.
- Ability to work effectively on a team while owning independent tasks and meeting deadlines.
- Interest in automation/scripting (e.g., PowerShell or Python).
- Security certifications (e.g., SC-200, Security+, Network+, etc.).
Benefits
- **Work with Experts**: Robust internal training program, plus Company-paid external training. SRA recognizes the value of professional development for employees. Therefore, we encourage our employees to pursue continuing education and role-specific training. Every SRA employee is eligible to attend one training per year paid for by SRA.
- **Corps Training Program**: Our SRA Corps training program is a six-week experience for May new hires that begins with one week of orientation at our Philadelphia headquarters. Whether new hires are interns, co-ops, or full-time consultants, SRA Corps members meet our founders, learn our values, and experience a day in the life of a cybersecurity consultant. Following orientation, Corps members return to their home office and participate in trainings such as Consulting 101, Enterprise Networks, Cloud Security and more. Our leaders provide hands-on offensive, defensive, and frameworks boot camps.
- **Mental Health Services**: SRA has partnered with BetterHelp to provide SRA employees with free mental health support. BetterHelp connects individuals with licensed therapists for chat, video, and phone sessions.
- **Medical / Dental / Other (regular full-time employees only)**
- - Generous medical, dental, and vision benefits at different price points.
- - Company-paid disability and life insurance.
- - Company 401(k) plan including annual 3% safe harbor contribution.
- - Free patient advocacy service that helps find care providers and resolve insurance queries.
- - Free on-site wellness programming covering both emotional and physical wellness.
- - Generous parental leave, sick leave, and vacation policies.
- - Option to work remotely or with a flexible schedule when needed.
- - Company-paid cell phone with discounted accessories.
- - 1-2-3 Give Program: 1. SRA will give $1,000 to a charity of your choice. 2. If you give an additional amount (up to $1,000), then 3. SRA will match that amount up to $1,000.
- (Subject to change)
- To find out more about us, please visit our website at: https://sra.io
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
incident investigationdigital forensicsinformation securitysystems administrationcomputer networkingautomationscriptingPowerShellPythoncase documentation
Soft Skills
punctualityattention to detailwritten communicationverbal communicationprofessionalismteamworkindependent task ownershipmeeting deadlinesclient-facing skillscontinuous improvement
Certifications
SC-200Security+Network+