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Job Summary:
Crexi is reimagining commercial real estate with an AI-powered platform built to deliver smarter, more efficient solutions. The Senior Security Operations Analyst is responsible for day-to-day security operations, threat detection and response, and maintaining a strong security posture across the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Monitor and triage security alerts, serve as the first internal escalation point for managed SOC vendors, investigate flagged incidents, and maintain accurate, timely incident logs.
• Manage endpoint security tooling, administer EDR and MDM platforms, enforce policy compliance across employee devices, and remediate vulnerabilities identified through scans or alerts
• Owns identity and access management (IAM) policy, access review design and audit reporting.
• Run the phishing simulation and security awareness program, schedule and manage campaigns, track completion rates, report results to leadership, and follow up with repeat offenders or high-risk user groups.
• Support SOC 2 evidence collection, pull logs, screenshots, and control artifacts on a recurring cadence to support corporate-side controls for audit and compliance readiness.
• Maintain security documentation, keep runbooks, incident response procedures, and access control policies current, accurate, and accessible.
• Partner with IT and engineering on security architecture reviews, vulnerability management, and secure configuration standards to reduce attack surface.
• Support vendor and third-party security assessments, including reviewing security questionnaires and tracking remediation commitments.
• Track and report key security metrics, alert volumes, mean time to respond, endpoint coverage, phishing click rates, and open vulnerabilities, on a recurring basis to the Director, IT.
• Leverage AI-assisted threat detection and SIEM analytics to improve alert fidelity, reduce noise, and surface high-priority incidents faster.
• Evaluate and pilot AI-powered security tools (e.g., AI-assisted SOAR, behavioral anomaly detection) to augment manual investigation workflows and accelerate response.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5–8 years of experience in a security operations, IT security, or similar hands-on role.
• Strong working knowledge of security operations concepts: threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and identity and access control.
• Hands-on experience with EDR platforms (e.g., CrowdStrike), MDM tools, and SIEM or log management platforms.
• Working knowledge of IAM principles and tools (e.g., Azure AD / Entra ID), including SSO, SCIM, and privileged access management.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 trust service criteria and the practical evidence collection requirements for a corporate IT environment.
• Strong written communication skills, able to produce clear incident reports, runbooks, and executive-facing security summaries.
• Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to manage multiple open incidents, tasks, and recurring compliance obligations simultaneously.
• Collaborative approach to working with cross-functional stakeholders including IT, engineering, legal, and HR.
• Self-starter who operates with a high degree of ownership and escalates appropriately when uncertainty or risk warrants it.
• Familiarity with AI/ML-assisted security tooling and an understanding of how AI both augments defensive capabilities and introduces new risk vectors to the environment.
Preferred:
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred; equivalent professional experience considered.
• Security certifications preferred, e.g., CompTIA Security+, GCIA, GCIH, SSCP, or equivalent.
• Experience with AI-powered security tools, SOAR platforms, or automated threat detection workflows is a plus.
Company:
Crexi is a technology solution that consolidates commercial real estate tools into a single platform for brokers, investors, and tenants. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.