Security Onion Specialist - Remote

Role Title: Security Onion Specialist
Role Type: Contractor
Location: Remote

Required Skills

Security Onion | Cybersecurity | Network Monitoring | Threat Detection | Security Alert Analysis | Log Analysis | Incident Response | Network Traffic Analysis | Security Operations | Technical Documentation | Workflow Evaluation | Written Communication

Job Summary

We are seeking experienced Security Onion Specialists to support a cybersecurity and AI training project. The role involves using Security Onion to perform security monitoring, investigate alerts, analyze logs and network traffic, and document real-world security workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform assigned cybersecurity workflows using Security Onion.

• Monitor networks, investigate alerts, and analyze security logs and traffic.

• Apply threat detection and incident investigation techniques.

• Record and document workflows, tools, and investigation steps.

• Create realistic prompts and detailed evaluation rubrics.

• Review task outputs for accuracy and compliance with project guidelines.

• Provide clear technical feedback and work independently in a remote environment.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Security Onion for monitoring, threat detection, or incident investigation.

• Practical cybersecurity or Security Operations experience.

• Ability to analyze alerts, logs, network traffic, and security events.

• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.

• Experience with data annotation, AI evaluation, RLHF, or similar human-data projects is a plus.

• Current access to Security Onion and ability to work independently.

• Comfortable recording and sharing screen-based workflows.