Key Responsibilities:

• Lead high‑fidelity alert investigations, performing deep technical analysis to rapidly identify, contain, and remediate threats.
• Own complex incident investigations, driving technically precise conclusions and elevating the organization’s detection and response maturity.
• Champion process development, identifying gaps, designing scalable workflows, and implementing improvements that strengthen the Incident Response program.
• Create and refine technical playbooks, documentation, and response guides, ensuring clarity, consistency, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and uplift junior analysts, providing guidance, coaching, and training to build a high-performing team.
• Serve as the escalation point for critical and ambiguous cases, applying advanced threat analysis and sound judgment under pressure.
• Collaborate with engineering, IT, Legal, HR, and business partners to resolve incidents holistically and drive enterprise-wide security improvements.
• Apply strong analytical and technical expertise to continuously enhance SOC processes, workflows, and response capabilities.
• Contribute to the evolution of our detection landscape, partnering with detection engineering to improve log ingestion, alert logic, and signal quality.
• Assess and mitigate AI‑related security risks, including model misuse, prompt injection, data leakage, and emerging automation attack vectors.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation, serving as a trusted responder for high‑severity incidents.

Skills Needed:

• At least 1 SANS/GIAC Certification (GCIH, GREM, GCFA preferred)

• Strong Hands-on experience with

• SIEM Platforms (Splunk, Microsoft sentinel, etc)

• EDR Tools (CrowdStrike, Carbon Black)

• Cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP, AliCloud)

• Network log analysis (Netflows and PCAP files)

• Deep understanding of:

• Mitre ATT&CK framework

• Malware behavior and exploitation techniques

• Windows, Linux, and macOS internals

• Script analysis (Javascript, VBscript, powershell, python)

• Malicious binary analysis (Windows, MacOS, Linux)

• Clear communication rooted in technical competence

• Confidence discussing findings with peers and senior management

Education: