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Cybersecurity Operations

This cluster covers detecting and responding to threats using EDR and SIEM tools, including threat hunting and penetration testing. Senior Security Engineers and SOC Analysts are the primary roles.

330Live openings
$155,111Median salary
78Roles touched
0.63Cohesion

Skills in this cluster

Ordered by centrality — how strongly each anchors the group.

EDR -5.9%
15.1%
16 openings10 roles
SIEM +3.2%
19.7%
32 openings15 roles
Threat Intelligence -9.1%
16%
30 openings17 roles
ISO 27001 new
5.2%
6 openings12 roles
Threat Hunting new
5.6%
4 openings6 roles
CISSP -7%
17.8%
53 openings27 roles
Penetration Testing -7.5%
18.5%
37 openings19 roles
Detection Engineering new
3.4%
2 openings4 roles
CrowdStrike new
6.3%
3 openings5 roles
NIST -7.8%
16.8%
59 openings32 roles
Information Security -10.2%
17.7%
88 openings47 roles

Roles that hire this cluster

Senior Security Engineer
11 matching skills · $148,720
Security Engineer
10 matching skills · $173,249
Security Operations Center Analyst
10 matching skills · $127,560
Application Security Engineer
9 matching skills · $123,500
Incident Response Manager
9 matching skills · $151,500
Sales Engineer / Solutions Engineer
8 matching skills · $120,000
Security Analyst
8 matching skills · $104,000
Security Architect
8 matching skills · $142,400

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