Cyber Security Analyst

Are you a skilled Cyber Security Analyst ready to make a meaningful impact in a forward-thinking and inclusive environment? Field Effect is hiring a Cyber Security Analyst to join their Analytic Operations team to monitor and assess diverse client IT environments to deliver an ongoing managed cyber security service. As part of the Analytic Operations team, you’ll work at the intersection of advanced technical expertise and actionable insights, tackling challenges that go beyond the boundaries of a typical SOC. In this role you will,
- Investigate a Wide Range of Threats: From triaging alerts and containing incidents to producing in-depth reports, you’ll handle the full spectrum of cyber security investigations.
- Leverage Cutting-Edge Technology: Use Field Effect’s proprietary MDR platform for seamless access to event logs, cloud logs, and processes—eliminating the friction of third-party systems.
- Enhance Your Analytic Skills: Work with advanced tools like EDR, YARA, SNORT, and cloud analytics to craft sophisticated threat detections and refine your analytic abilities.

Experience & Skills We Look For
There are several attributes of someone who would be successful in a cyber security analyst role at Field Effect. These include:

- Minimum 2 years’ experience in incident analysis, security analytics, malware research, or similar experience in a SOC environment
- Out-of-the-box thinking —we welcome neurodivergent talent and value diverse perspectives to tackle complex challenges
- Strong analytical thinking, and the ability to spot patterns, trends and reason through problems
- Understanding of the modern Internet, protocols, cyber threats and malware
- Network analysis and packet capture using tools like Wireshark, Tshark
- Ability to take a wide, high-level perspective to prioritize, then drill down and get deep in the weeds
- Data and metadata analysis using tools like Python, ELK
- Having a deep curiosity and the ability to follow and investigate leads
- Broad general IT knowledge, including Windows enterprise networks, operating systems, virtualized and cloud-based infrastructure
- Clear and effective communication in writing
- Thriving in a collaborative environment, both asking for and providing help
- Knowledge of cyber security practices, challenges, tools, and techniques
- Occasional weekend (daytime shifts) are required as part of a rotating team schedule to maintain full operational coverage, currently around every fifth week.
- Occasional travel may be required for this role.

Added Bonuses
- Application protocol analysis
- Malware reverse engineering, kill chain analysis, and vulnerability research
- Administration of security and networking software and hardware, including firewalls, proxies, SIEMs, Snort, Suricata
- Ability to program in interpreted languages efficiently and effectively, especially Python

What You’ll Get By Joining Our Team
- Your brilliance will get a runway
- You will be surrounded by industry leading cyber security experts
- You will help shape the future of cybersecurity
- A workplace of opportunity

Field Effect is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are given consideration regardless of race, religion, colour, gender, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class as provided in applicable employment laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us.
**About Us**:
People rarely can say that they work at a job they truly love—unless, of course, they work at Field Effect. We believe in investing in the personal and professional success of our employees. We want our teammates to feel great about the work that they do and about themselves when they are with us. That is our culture.
We have an all-star team with industry leading cyber security knowledge and analytical thinking that is engaged, motivated, genuinely curious, and has the willingness to be as diligent as possible. Field Effect is a rapidly growing company with an increasingly distributed global workforce that provides world-class managed cyber security solutions for businesses of all sizes. The company was founded by the brightest talents in cyber security, with a mission to remove the complexity of securing endpoints and networks by delivering monitoring and threat protection services that are easy to use and provide actionable insights.
Field Effect has earned their outstanding reputation through innovation, ingenuity and drive to change the cyber security industry. As a result of the exceptional workplace and culture they have built, Field Effect has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Small and Medium Employers in 2023. This team is committed to helping businesses simplify and improve their cyber security by empowering their employees to collaborate, grow and thrive in their fields.