Cybersecurity Analyst - SOC

IBM
IBM

IT

California, USA · Tokyo, Japan · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Jun 25, 2026
Introduction

About the Team

The Security Operations Center has a global footprint within IBM and is responsible for monitoring 24x7 monitoring and incident response. As a part of this team, you will be working with other likeminded security professionals in order to secure and protect IBM employees, systems and environments (such as IBM Cloud) against emerging cybersecurity threats.

About the Role
This role will perform security monitoring, investigations, and response to thwart internal and external threats to the IBM corporate and federal environment. Additionally, you will collaborate on an ongoing basis with the Cyber Security Rapid Response Incident Response Team and other security teams to support operations. Detection, triage, incident analysis, containment, remediation and incident reporting are required while coordinating, balancing business priorities, emerging threats, and best practices, to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information assets. This role may include daytime, evening or overnight and weekend shifts to meet business requirements and fufill the 24x7 mission.

Your role and responsibilities

Job Description

IBM is seeking a Mid Level Cyber Security Analyst to work on the CISO Security Operations Center team – supporting the rapid threat detection and response mission. This position requires a motivated fast learner, who can work within a global security operations function to

identify, analyze, and remediate potential threats to the environment. This individual is responsible for providing continuous monitoring of the corporate and federal

assets ensuring the integrity of the environment. The candidate will require security industry knowledge that evolves with current and emerging threats. The right candidate will possess an ongoing understanding of the investigative process, and relatable information security business and technological processes

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

· Detect, respond, mitigate, and report on cyber threats/incidents that may impact the environment

· Monitor a strategic, comprehensive corporate and federal information security monitoring

· Model effective communication and response to internal stakeholders within your investigations

· Improve runbooks, processes and response capabilities

· Resolve problems independently and understand escalation procedures

· Manage a varied caseload

· Collaborate and serve as liaison to Managed and/or Unmanaged Security Service providers

· Act as an internal information security consultant to the business and technology units, advising on risks, threats and control practices related to Rapid Response

· Contribute to training and knowledge sharing sessions within the team

· Contribute to rule tuning and detection use cases across our SOC tools

· Monitor the health and function of essential tools during operations to ensure timely and accurate escalations of any software or availability issues.

Minimum Requirements:

2+ years of information security experience

Experience with security operations, security engineering, risk management, vulnerability management, threat analysis, security auditing, incident response and other information security practices preferred

Strong knowledge of cloud computing and network protocols

Knowledge of industry information security standards/frameworks (NIST, MITRE, FEDRAMP)

Experience working with SIEM tools and log analysis

Knowledge of EDR tools and endpoint analysis

Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with information technology professionals as well as senior management and auditors

High level of personal integrity, and the ability to professionally handle confidential investigations and exercise the appropriate level of judgment

High degree of initiative, accountability, and ability to work as part of a team

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred Requirements:

4+ years of information security experience in a security operations or engineering role

· Strong understanding of networking protocols and firewall management

· Enterprise experience managing a caseload in an incident response or security operations environment

· Experience with programming or scripting languages

· Experience tuning rules within SIEM tools like Qradar

· Strong experience with EDR platforms, such as Crowdstrike, Microsoft Defender 365, Uptycs or Carbon Black, conducting analysis as part of investigations

· Experience with cloud computing platforms, e.g. IBM Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Azure

· Experience with host virtualization platforms, e.g. VMware, Hyper-V

· Experience with application container technologies, e.g. Kubernetes

· Purple team experience conducting attacker simulation and adversary emulation

System administration skills for Windows and Linux

Windows, Linux and/or Mac forensics

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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