Intrusion detection analyst vs senior security engineer

The differences between intrusion detection analysts and senior security engineers can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 4-6 years to become both an intrusion detection analyst and a senior security engineer. Additionally, a senior security engineer has an average salary of $122,480, which is higher than the $86,862 average annual salary of an intrusion detection analyst.

The top three skills for an intrusion detection analyst include SIEM, incident response and firewall. The most important skills for a senior security engineer are cloud security, java, and linux.

Intrusion detection analyst vs senior security engineer overview

	Intrusion Detection Analyst	Senior Security Engineer
Yearly salary	$86,862	$122,480
Hourly rate	$41.76	$58.88
Growth rate	32%	32%
Number of jobs	5,673	69,850
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 63%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	6	6

Intrusion detection analyst vs senior security engineer salary

Intrusion detection analysts and senior security engineers have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Intrusion Detection Analyst	Senior Security Engineer
Average salary	$86,862	$122,480
Salary range	Between $65,000 And $115,000	Between $90,000 And $164,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Roku
Best paying industry	-	Manufacturing

Differences between intrusion detection analyst and senior security engineer education

There are a few differences between an intrusion detection analyst and a senior security engineer in terms of educational background:

	Intrusion Detection Analyst	Senior Security Engineer
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 63%	Bachelor's Degree, 63%
Most common major	Computer Information Systems	Computer Science
Most common college	University of Washington	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Intrusion detection analyst vs senior security engineer demographics

Here are the differences between intrusion detection analysts' and senior security engineers' demographics:

	Intrusion Detection Analyst	Senior Security Engineer
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 83.1% Female, 16.9%	Male, 91.2% Female, 8.8%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.2% Unknown, 6.1% Hispanic or Latino, 9.0% Asian, 9.6% White, 65.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%	Black or African American, 9.2% Unknown, 6.1% Hispanic or Latino, 9.0% Asian, 9.6% White, 65.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.4%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between intrusion detection analyst and senior security engineer duties and responsibilities

Intrusion detection analyst example responsibilities.

Manage endpoint encryption, antivirus/anti-malware host IPS, process documentation, incident management.
Monitor security events in the SIEM and other general office tools.
Monitor and analyze network communication traffic with ArcSight SIEM in a SOC/CERT/CSIRT.
Monitor day-to-day operations of the sensors (SourceFire, EEMSG IronPorts, and ArcSight) locate at supporting customer's locations.
Perform packet analysis utilizing Wireshark.
Used ArcSight for SEM level rule tuning.

Senior security engineer example responsibilities.

Manage logistics of moving necessary equipment for test across country to newly designed/built NSA certify test facility.
Assess cloud providers and products to meet NIST 800-53 for accreditation of applications operating in the cloud.
Involve in migrating JBOSS /Fat java applications to RHEL6 upgrade.
Conduct vulnerability scans using NESSUS to scan the CMS QIO network infrastructure.
Install and maintain security infrastructure, including IPS/IDS, log management, and SIEM systems.
Design and implement a plan to upgrade the ACAS infrastructure to include MDA's remote sites.

Intrusion detection analyst vs senior security engineer skills

Common intrusion detection analyst skills

SIEM, 11%
Incident Response, 10%
Firewall, 8%
SOC, 6%
Security Events, 6%
ArcSight, 5%

Common senior security engineer skills

Cloud Security, 8%
Java, 8%
Linux, 5%
Windows, 5%
Incident Response, 4%
Security Engineering, 4%

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