Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Senior Cybersecurity Analyst - (Chicago - Remote, US)

What to expect when you join the Sikich family

Team members at Sikich have a lot in common while also being part of a rich and varied group of contributors, creating a distinct and thriving culture. Chief among our commonalities is a desire for growth and a shared unity of purpose in our professional lives. We believe that through various perspectives, challenging the status quo and rewarding action, we accelerate innovation and drive growth - for our clients, for ourselves and for our communities.

The professional services landscape continues to evolve. For Sikich, this means we have an opportunity to further cement our leadership position in this industry and continue to grow our organization in increasingly exciting ways. This growth is meaningful for every team member at our company because larger companies simply see more interesting client opportunities and can attract impressively talented individuals like you. Through a dedicated focus on key business priorities and intentionally creating a rewarding employee experience, Sikich has developed into a highly regarded provider of professional services and a sought-after employer of choice.

Do you want to work with other skilled practitioners and serve clients in a way that makes a difference? Are you seeking a supportive environment backed by a deep and extensive set of skillsets? Are you ready to make an impact and be acknowledged for your contributions? If you answered yes to these questions, we see a mutually beneficial and gratifying relationship on the horizon!

Are you ready to grow with us?

Position Summary

Sikich is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to serve as a key escalation point for Security alerts while proactively evaluating security reports, event patterns, and client environments to develop strategic recommendations that enhance our clients' overall security posture.

This role combines reactive incident handling with proactive environment analysis - conducting in-depth investigations, assessing security controls, and identifying opportunities for process and technology improvements. The analyst will provide both immediate response to threats and long-term recommendations to strengthen defenses, working closely with internal teams, leadership, and clients.

What will you do in this role?

• Review and analyze SOC alerts, event trends, and client security environments to identify gaps, recurring issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop actionable strategic recommendations for security control enhancements, process refinements, and detection rule tuning.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of detection and response capabilities across client environments and recommend optimization strategies.
• Partner with clients during onboarding to validate security requirements, perform tool integrations and configurations, and tailor monitoring controls to meet organizational needs.
• Lead small-scale security improvement projects, including SOC workflow updates and tool configuration enhancements.
• Contribute to compliance readiness by ensuring monitoring and response processes align with frameworks such as NIST CSF and CIS Controls.
• Collaborate with leadership on technology evaluations, providing input on new tools, integrations, and detection capabilities.
• Serve as the escalation point for SOC alerts, triaging and investigating potential threats to determine risk and impact.
• Lead and coordinate the containment, mitigation, and resolution of escalated security incidents.
• Conduct post-incident reviews, internally and with clients, to determine root cause, document findings, and recommend preventive measures.
• Perform advanced threat hunting activities to proactively detect indicators of compromise.
• Escalate high-severity incidents to the Incident Response (IR) team when needed, ensuring complete transfer of investigative context.
• Maintain and optimize security tools, SIEM configurations, and monitoring dashboards.

What do you need to succeed in this role?

• 5+ years of cybersecurity experience, including at least 2 years in SOC operations, incident response, or threat hunting.
• Strong background in alert triage, log analysis, and security environment evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to create actionable security recommendations based on trends, patterns, and post-incident findings.
• Proficiency with SIEM platforms, security monitoring tools, and EDR solutions.
• Familiarity with NIST, CIS, or other security compliance frameworks.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, or equivalent preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present technical findings and recommendations to both technical and business audiences.
• Experience with PSA and RMM tools (e.g., ConnectWise Manage, Automate) a plus.

In addition, specific skills/experience required are as follows:

• Servant Leader - You are hyper focused on engaging employees, fostering their development, and building a positive culture.
• Solutions Focused - You see opportunities in every business problem and can develop, articulate, and implement solutions.
• Collaboration - You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
• Instills Trust - You do what you say, and you follow through on commitments, you act with integrity, you are consistent and are perceived as credible.
• Impact & Influence Thinking - You gain support for ideas, proposals, and solutions, and get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives/objectives.

About Sikich

Sikich is a global company specializing in Accounting, Advisory, and Technical professional services. With employees across the globe, Sikich ranks as one of the largest professional services companies in the United States. Our comprehensive skillsets, obtained over decades of experience as entrepreneurs, business owners and industry innovators, allow us to provide insights and transformative strategies to help strengthen every dimension of our clients' businesses.

Sikich Total Rewards

Our team members enjoy expansive benefits ranging from competitive compensation and insurance options to wellness programs and a flexible time off policy, to name only a few. Sikich also takes pride in prioritizing team members' health, total wellbeing and time spent with family, friends and in the pursuit of personal goals, hobbies, and endeavors.

In compliance with this state's pay transparency laws, the midpoint of the salary range for this role is $120,000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.

Some examples of our many benefits:

• Sikich maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Sikich, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
• Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
• Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.

We also offer:

• Flexible work arrangements
• Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
• HSA employer contribution
• Nine (9) paid holidays annually.
• A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
• 401(k) with employer contributions
• CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days.
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Client referral bonus program
• Pet insurance
• FORCE - Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.

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Sikich is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

Sikich currently practices in an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Sikich CPA LLC is a licensed CPA firm that provides audit and attest services to its clients. Sikich LLC has a contractual arrangement with Sikich CPA LLC under which Sikich LLC provides Sikich CPA LLC with professional and support personnel and other services to support Sikich CPA LLC's performance of its professional services, and Sikich CPA LLC shares certain client information with Sikich LLC with respect to the provision of such services.

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