Career Galaxy / Security
Security Operations Analyst
The first responder of the digital world.
You monitor alerts, investigate suspicious activity, and decide what is noise and what is a real incident. It is one of the most common front doors into cybersecurity.
Entry level friendlyInvestigatingAnalyzingLow barrier to entryStabilityFast growth
Entry
$65k
Median
$95k
Senior
$130k
Outlook: Growing much faster than average. Ranges are US estimates and vary by market and employer.
A day in the life
- Review the alert queue and triage what came in overnight
- Investigate a suspicious login and document the timeline
- Hand off findings to the incident response lead
Skills that matter
Log analysisNetworking basicsIncident triageClear writing
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