# Senior Incident Response Analyst

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,900.00 - $196,300.00
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

WGU is seeking a Senior Incident Response Analyst to join our Security Operations Center (SOC) team. As a Senior Incident Response Analyst, you will help protect WGU's systems and data by leading advanced incident response and threat detection activities across multiple platforms and environments.

Responsibilities:

- Lead security incident investigations from initial triage through remediation and closure.

- Perform advanced threat detection, analysis, and response across multi-platform environments.

- Investigate suspicious activity using SIEM, EDR, network, and other security tools.

- Develop and tune SIEM alerts, detection rules, and dashboards to improve incident detection and response.

- Conduct threat hunting and research emerging threats to identify and address potential risks.

- Partner with engineering and IT teams to drive incident remediation, harden configurations, and strengthen security controls.

- Support vulnerability management, security audits, compliance initiatives, and risk assessments.

Requirements:

- 5+ years in security operations

- Hands-on SIEM expertise, including content development

- Experience with CrowdStrike or Carbon Black (EDR), Mimecast, and vulnerability management tools

- Working knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and cloud security principles

- Python or Bash scripting for automation and workflow improvement

- Strong communicator who can brief leadership and work across non-security teams

- Bachelor's degree in IT Security, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience

Benefits:

- Competitive salary ($130,900 - $196,300 per year)

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off

- 11 paid holidays

- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- SIEM
- EDR
- CrowdStrike
- Carbon Black
- Mimecast
- MITRE ATT&CK
- Python
- Bash
- cloud security

### Nice to have
- CISSP
- GIAC
- CCSP
- AWS Security Specialty
- SOAR
- cloud-native security tooling

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