Apex Space
Security Operations Center Analyst (Top Secret Clearance)
$88K–$121K
Los Angeles · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 2 or more years; listed areas include SOC, incident response, threat detection, endpoint security, vulnerability management, or another hands-on cybersecurity operations role.
- Visa sponsorship
- Active TS/SCI clearance and U.S. citizenship are required. ITAR eligibility requires qualifying as a U.S. Person or being able to obtain required U.S. export authorizations.
About the job
Monitors and investigates security alerts across endpoints, identity, cloud, and networks, and coordinates incident response and documentation.
What you'll do
- Monitor and triage alerts; investigate suspicious logins, phishing, privilege changes, and unusual network activity.
- Escalate incidents and collaborate with IT, Cybersecurity, and Network teams on security findings.
- Document incidents, review logs, collect evidence, and support vulnerability management and compliance reporting.
What they ask for
- Active TS/SCI clearance at time of hire and U.S. citizenship.
- At least 2 years of experience in a hands-on cybersecurity operations role or a listed related area.
- Experience investigating events using EDR, SIEM, identity, cloud, or network telemetry.
- Working knowledge of Windows and Linux, authentication, networking, attacker techniques, and cloud logging; ability to query SIEM/log platforms and document investigations.
Nice to have
- Experience with CrowdStrike Falcon, Palo Alto, Tenable, Elastic Security, Microsoft GCC High, Entra ID, AWS security telemetry, or similar tools.
- Detection engineering, threat hunting, MITRE ATT&CK, scripting, security operations certification, or regulated-environment experience.
Pay
$88K – $121K (base salary)
Tools
CrowdStrike, Elastic SIEM, Microsoft Identity, AWS, Palo Alto, Windows, Linux, Python
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