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# Tier 3 SOC Analyst (Cleared)

- **Company:** Zachary Piper
- **Location:** Raleigh, NC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000 - $180,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Mitre Att&ck, Cyber Threat Analysis, SC Clearance, Cybercrime, 3-tier Architectures, Splunk
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9248179/tier-3-soc-analyst-cleared

## About the Role

* Active Secret Clearance.

 * 5+ years of experience working as a SOC Analyst in an enterprise security environment.

 * Proven experience operating at a Tier 3 SOC Analyst level.

 * Strong hands-on experience with Splunk, including correlation searches, dashboards, investigations, and detection engineering.

 * Experience building and implementing new detections, alerts, and SOC playbooks.

 * Demonstrated experience leading proactive threat hunts and articulating methodologies, findings, and outcomes.

 * Strong understanding of incident response, threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK framework, and adversary tactics.

 * Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly explain complex threat investigations and hunt activities.

## Description

Piper Companies is seeking a Tier 3 SOC Analyst to join a leading organization within the cybersecurity and defense technology industry. The Tier 3 SOC Analyst will serve as a senior member of the Security Operations Center, leading advanced threat detection, threat hunting, incident response, and detection engineering efforts. This Tier 3 SOC Analyst position is a long term, open ended contract opportunity and requires you to work onsite 5 days per week in RTP, NC. The Tier 3 SOC Analyst requires an active Secret Clearance., * Lead advanced threat hunting activities to proactively identify malicious activity that has not been detected through traditional alerting mechanisms.

 * Investigate complex security incidents, perform root cause analysis, and provide remediation recommendations.

 * Develop, tune, and maintain advanced detection rules and use cases within Splunk.

 * Create and enhance SOC playbooks, workflows, and incident response procedures.

 * Analyze network, endpoint, cloud, and log data to identify indicators of compromise and adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

 * Collaborate with cross-functional security teams to improve monitoring coverage and detection capabilities.

 * Mentor junior SOC analysts and provide technical leadership during high-priority investigations.

 * Present findings from threat hunts and security investigations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.