Security Analyst II, Threat Detection (English, Spanish)

2 Months ago • 2 Years + • Cyber Security

Job Summary

Job Description

The Security Analyst II, Threat Detection role at Google involves creating and maintaining the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Responsibilities include searching for anomalous activity, escalating incidents, leading responses to low-severity incidents, supporting responses to high and medium-severity incidents, and analyzing security alerts from various sources. This role requires expertise in data analysis, project management, and fluent communication in English and Spanish. The team develops and maintains the signals, tools, and infrastructure used to combat sophisticated attackers, investigate security events, perform threat hunting, and analyze malware indicators. The successful candidate will defend network boundaries, harden systems against attacks, and protect sensitive data.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 2+ years data analysis experience
  • 2+ years project management experience
  • Fluent in English and Spanish
  • Ability to work non-standard hours
  • Threat detection and incident response
Good to have:
  • Security+ certification
  • Automation experience (coding/scripting)
  • Experience analyzing and remediating security incidents
  • Understanding of attacker TTPs

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
  • 2 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.
  • Ability to communicate in English and Spanish fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
  • Ability to work non-standard hours and work rotations/shifts, including night shifts as required.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Certification in Security+ or similar Cyber Security/Incident Response.
  • Experience with automation via coding or scripting.
  • Experience analyzing, triaging, and remediating common information security incidents.
  • Understanding of common attacker tactics, tools, and techniques.
  • Ability to work separately, prioritize, and multitask.
  • Excellent problem-solving and investigative skills.

About the job

The Detection team develops and maintains the signals, tools, and infrastructure that we use, constantly evolving them to match sophisticated attackers, investigate security events, threat hunting, and perform malware indicator analysis.

In this role, you will create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. You will defend network boundaries, keep computer systems and network devices hardened against attacks and provide security services to protect sensitive data (e.g., passwords and customer information). You will monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions and work to proactively identify flaws and vulnerabilities.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Responsibilities

  • Search for anomalous activity via manual hunting at Alphabet scale.
  • Escalate complex/unusual incidents to Detection and Response teams.
  • Lead response efforts to low severity incidents.
  • Support the response to high and medium severity security incidents as directed.
  • Analyze security alerts in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and other external alert sources.

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