Tier 2 Security Analyst

Job ID: 2511252

Location: REMOTE WORK, TX, US

Date Posted: 2025-10-31

Category: Cyber

Subcategory: Cybersecurity Spec

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: No

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is seeking a Tier 2 Security Analyst to join our team supporting a major state & local government customer. This position reports to the SOC Manager/Tier 3.

This role is 100% remote within the US!

Essential duties of this position include:

• Performs Strategic Planning & Management and Digital Forensics from the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Framework.
• Engages in specialized cybersecurity functions such as red-teaming, ethical hacking, cloud security architecture, digital forensics, reverse engineering of malware, and enterprise cyber architecture.
• Provides consultative and advanced, specialized, and/or highly independent functions not typically covered in other job sub-families.
• Provides specific, detailed information for hardware and software selection, cloud service provider selection (including SLA authorship, development, assessment).
• Implements application and data migration techniques and tools to meet business needs, including present and future capacity and security requirements.
• Addresses a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, and network access.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new security tools, techniques, and technologies, and integrates them into the enterprise in alignment with IT security strategy.
• Utilizes COTS/GOTS and custom tools to scan, identify, contain, mitigate, and remediate vulnerabilities and intrusions in physical security and cybersecurity systems, processes, policies, etc.
• Applies expert engineering knowledge of enterprise IT and security solutions to design, develop, and/or implement consistent solutions with enterprise architecture security policies.
• Supports full-spectrum military cyberspace operations.
• Writes technical reports detailing assessments, mitigating, and remediating activities performed.
• Translates and authors technical documentation in layman's terms to ensure understanding of the work performed and its outcomes.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Education and Qualifications:

• BS Degree and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience. 4+ years of additional experience can be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Receives assignments in the form of objectives with goals and the process to meet those goals.
• Provides direction to employees according to established policies and management guidance.
• Administers company policies that directly affect subordinate employees and recommends changes to unit or sub-unit policies.
• Work is reviewed to measure meeting objectives.
• Candidates must be able to pass a CJIS Criminal Justice background investigation and maintain CJIS clearance throughout employment term. Citizenship Required
  
  

Required Experience:

• Administering and executing policies, processes, and procedures affecting subordinate employees and the workflow of the work unit.
• Leading daily operations of the work unit.
• Making decisions that impact work unit operations, with erroneous decisions potentially causing delays in schedules and requiring additional people and financial resources.
• Security+ or higher certifications.
  
  

Preferred Experience:

• ITIL v4 certification preferred (Foundation or above).
• Interacting internally primarily with subordinates and other supervisors, and externally with suppliers, vendors, and/or customers.
• Ensuring that the primary purpose of liaison is information sharing and basic problem resolution.
• Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment and overall quality and efficiency.
  
  

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .