Security Operations Analyst (Tier 2)

The job

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Job description

At Aristocrat, we are passionate about delivering world-class gaming experiences that bring happiness to millions of players worldwide. We are seeking an exceptionally skilled Security Operations Analyst (Tier 2) to join our team. As part of our Security Operations Center, you will play a crucial role in protecting our digital assets and maintaining our flawless security standards. This position offers an outstanding opportunity to collaborate with global teams, grow within a structured mentoring program, and build your career in a modern SOC environment. If you are ambitious and ready to compete at the highest level, this role is for you!

What You'll Do

• Own MSSP customer concerns and medium/high-severity alerts from start to finish. Scope the activity and build the timeline. Identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) and investigate endpoint, identity, network, and cloud data to reach a defensible conclusion.
• Review a sample of MSSP triage for quality, offering tuning, detection-gap, and escalation-criteria feedback to the MSSP.
• Triage phishing (header analysis, sandboxing), malware (static & sandbox), and credential-compromise investigations.
• Complete containment and remediation within approved playbooks host isolation, account disablement, credential reset, IOC blocking and record every action taken.
• Raise issues to senior specialists with a full set of information: hypothesis, evidence, actions taken, current risk, and specific ask; send well-understood benign patterns back to the MSSP along with a detailed disposition and the missing playbook step.
• Build and run queries across our SIEM, EDR, and SOAR platforms and MSSP tooling to support investigations and reporting.
• Identify detection and tuning gaps. Flag false positives and propose tuning, suppression, or enrichment with supporting evidence. Test and validate detection changes shipped by the detection engineering team.
• Document every case to a high standard. Ensure it is complete, accurate, and reproducible by someone not on shift. Accept peer and lead QA review. Act on feedback within the same cycle.
• Support specialist-led threat hunts and incident response evidence gathering and technical analysis from detection through root cause analysis (RCA).
• Contribute to playbook, runbook, and knowledge-base improvements drawn from your own casework.
• Participate in the 24x7 rotating shift roster, including on-call and occasional weekend coverage.

• 2+ years of hands-on SOC / security operations experience, with ownership of investigations beyond initial triage.
• A bachelor's degree in information systems, cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Query proficiency on our CrowdStrike stack CrowdStrike Query Language (CQL) or transferable SIEM query experience (e.g., KQL, SPL); plus hands-on EDR (live response, process-tree analysis, host isolation).
• Working knowledge of Windows, Linux, and Active Directory (AD) / Entra ID attack patterns; comfortable reading authentication, process, and network logs without a playbook.
• A solid grasp of the incident-response process, phishing and malware investigations; MITRE ATT&CK for mapping observed behavior.
• Nice to have: Security+, ISC2 SSCP, Microsoft SC-200, CrowdStrike (CCFA/CCFR), Blue Team Level 1/2 (BTL1/BTL2), GCIA, GCIH, or CySA+ certifications.
• Cloud security monitoring (AWS, Azure, or GCP); scripting (Python or PowerShell); SOAR/automation.
• Exposure to detection tuning or threat hunting.

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This is a Mid Level role in the Technology field (Cybersecurity) at Aristocrat. Mid-level roles usually expect some years of relevant experience and the ability to work with limited supervision.

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The place in numbers

Las Vegas has 660,400 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 20.7% of the population of Nevada. It covers 142 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 4,655 people per square mile. The median age is 38.6, about the same as the state median (38.6 against 39.1).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,563 a month (rent plus utilities), about the same as the state median ($1,563 against $1,597). Over a year that is 25.4% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $427,900, which is 5.8 times the median household income ($73,877); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 56.6% of households own their home, 6% below the state average (56.6% against 60.0%).

Work and pay

The Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV metropolitan area has 1,136,960 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $46,670 a year, 8% below the national median ($46,670 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are food preparation and serving related (167,090 jobs, median $34,580); office and administrative support (137,910 jobs, median $45,570); transportation and material moving (105,450 jobs, median $39,550). The area is most specialised in personal care and service (2.2 times) and building and grounds cleaning and maintenance (1.8 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($101,840) and legal ($100,950). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Clark County was 4.8%. 62.3% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Clark County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 70.9% drive alone, 2.5% use public transit, 1.3% walk, 12.1% work from home. 10.1% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 7% below the state average (10.1% against 10.9%).

People and education

27.6% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, about the same as the state share (27.6% against 27.9%). 20.9% of residents were born outside the United States, 9% above the state share (20.9% against 19.1%). The poverty rate is 13.9%, 12% above the state rate (13.9% against 12.4%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 92°F (33.5°C), and the coolest is Dec at 45°F (7.1°C). About 147 mm (6 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Feb is the wettest month (23 mm) and Jun the driest (1 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

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Distances

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Median rent in Las Vegas is $1,563 a month and median household income $73,877 (ACS 2020–2024).

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