Job Summary

Information Security Analysts

The University of Utah has an opportunity for a Cybersecurity Analyst Tier 3 (Security Operations Center) to help support our Information Security and Compliance goals. The Tier 3 SOC analyst is the senior escalation point within the Security Operations Center, responsible for leading complex investigations while driving detection engineering, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives. The role blends investigative expertise with technical capabilities to improve detection fidelity, reduce response times, and strengthen organizational security.

About UIT

University Information Technology (UIT), the central IT service provider for the University of Utah, reports to the U's Chief Information Officer and is responsible for many of the U's shared IT services including the wired and wireless network; Campus Information Services (CIS) portal; UMail, telephone, and online collaboration; digital learning technologies; information security; software licensing; and a host of other IT systems and services.

About the University of Utah

Located in Salt Lake City, the U is the flagship institution of the State of Utah's system of higher education, home to arts and museum venues and a member of the BIG-12 Conference. Skiing and snowboarding opportunities are a short distance from campus, and opportunities to pursue activities from biking to hiking to fishing abound. Salt Lake City is home to the Utah Symphony and Opera, Ballet West, professional sports teams, and a wide range of other cultural and recreational activities.

The department may choose to hire at any of the below job levels and associated pay rates based on their business need and budget.

Responsibilities

Incident Response

• Lead the end-to-end incident response lifecycle, including triage, investigation, containment, eradication, and post-incident analysis across endpoint, network, cloud, and identity domains.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for Tier 2 analysts, providing technical direction and oversight for complex investigations.
• Perform digital forensics to support root cause analysis, adjust security detections to address identified gaps, and develop post-incident plans of action.

Detection Engineering

• Own detection strategy and coverage across key threat domains.
• Define telemetry requirements in partnership with security engineering and platform owners.
• Lead development of detection standards and quality metrics
• Design and maintain detection logic across SIEM, EDR, and cloud platforms, ensuring high-fidelity alerting through tuning, enrichment, and correlation of multi-source telemetry.
• Identify detection gaps based on relevant cybersecurity threat intelligence and as a function of the incident response lifecycle.
• Design, build, and maintain automation (SOAR) to improve triage, data enrichment, and response efficiency.
• Operationalize threat hunting and incident findings into scalable detection use cases and playbooks.

Threat Analysis

• Lead hypothesis-driven threat hunting campaigns informed by threat intelligence, transforming findings into durable detections and response playbooks.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting to detect advanced adversarial activity not detected by existing controls.
• Analyze attacker behavior and map to known tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP)
• Continuously evaluate detection coverage, proactively reducing false positives while increasing detection quality.

Leadership

• Assist in mentoring and developing Tier 1/2 SOC analysts; conducting periodic investigation reviews to ensure quality
• Drive improvement in SOC processes, workflows, and incident response playbooks.
• Produce clear, actionable after-action reports and executive-ready summaries for findings.
• Partner with internal IT teams to improve logging, telemetry, and observability across the environment.

Minimum Qualifications

EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor's degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Department may hire employee at one of the following job levels:

Information Security Analyst, IV: Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 8 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 6 years of directly related work experience.

Information Security Analyst, V: Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 10 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 8 years of directly related work experience.

Information Security Analyst, VI: Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 12 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 10 years of directly related work experience.

Information Security Analyst, VII: Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 14 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 12 years of directly related work experience.

Preferences

• Strong operational security background
• Experience conducting hands-on analysis of large volumes of logs, network data, and other attack artifacts during incident investigations
• Extensive experience leveraging SIEM and SOAR platforms to analyze diverse log types and events across multiple data sources, applying behavioral, statistical, and machine learning techniques to detect and respond to advanced threats
• Strong understanding of the network threat lifecycle, attack vectors, and exploitation methods, including attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
• Experience monitoring, defending, and administering cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), including the use of cloud-native security tools and strategies to protect data, as well as identifying and mitigating cloud-specific threats
• Proficiency in scripting and programming

Special Instructions

Requisition Number: PRN45436B

Full Time or Part Time? Full Time

Work Schedule Summary: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. with on call responsibilities for after hours, weekend, holidays, etc.

Department: 00954 - UIT Systems & Security

Location: Campus

Pay Rate Range: $100,000 to $195,795

Close Date: 7/6/2026