Principal Security Analyst

Job Summary:

Is your expertise with enterprise security something your mama brags about to her friends? Does your idea of a good time involve peering into data and trends to identify potential risks from hackers, spies, and other bad apples? Do you long for an intimate understanding of a company's infrastructure and operations? If this sounds like you, then friend, we need to talk.

Alert Logic is on the hunt for a seasoned Principal Security Analyst on our Enterprise Security Experts team. Your exceptional background will give you the credibility and skills needed to serve as a trusted and hands-on security advisor for our enterprise-level customers. Combined with your brainiac understanding of the Alert Logic product suite, you will validate and contextualize observations and alerts from intimate knowledge of your assigned customer infrastructure and operations. Your #1 goal, top-priority, and mission-possible is to hyper-enhance value for our customers. By delivering stellar insights and recommendations you will empower them to operate safely with minimized risk while continually propelling improvement to their cyber security programs.

You won't be alone in this worthy endeavor. As part of a team of exceptional experts, you will grow your security knowledge from the experience of your peers, and from our excellent array of internal and external training programs and tools. Start loosening up your larynx because you will also be the voice of the customer - driving new features and improvements to our products and services and working with key teams in product development and security content creation.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide world-class customer experience and security outcomes for our customers, including:
  • Conducting deep threat hunting for anomalies, risks, and malware via numerous data sources
  • Providing incident response guidance, during low level and widespread compromises
  • Identifying industry and global threat trends to provide targeted risk minimization.
  • Create IOC (Indicators of Compromise) detection for undiscovered or new threats.
  • Assess customer environments for optimum threat visibility.
  • Delivery of briefings to large and managerial audiences
• Work with clients to report actionable intelligence, improving their security posture.
• Provide expertise on security standards, defenses and expand customer awareness of adversaries and threats.
• Participate with other teams to identify novel, interesting or anomalous attackers or attack vectors.
• Develop client relationships, building trust through above activities.
• Collect feedback across assigned customers to influence product design.
• Mentor and act as a point of escalation for junior analysts.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5 years of experience in two or more of the following disciplines:
  • Incident Response
  • Incident Analysis
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threat Hunting
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Security Consulting
  • Cloud Security Concepts/Architecture
• Extensive experience in customer facing roles and relationship management.
• Ability to build relationships and convey security concepts to large/managerial audiences.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework and new vulnerabilities/attack methods.
• Familiarity with other High-Level Security Frameworks such as NIST

Alert Logic is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by emailing [email protected].