Junior Security Analyst, Threat Detection Operations

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
• Experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

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

About The Job

In this role, you will develop and maintain the signals, tools, and infrastructure that are used constantly which help Google in evolving to match sophisticated attackers. You will be conducting and leading others in security analysis, threat hunting, as well as malware and indicator analysis. You will be responsible for handling all malicious activity on Google's networks. You will perform deep analysis of threats on enterprise, production, and cloud environments.

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

• Identify security issues, implement and design security controls, tools, and services to improve security systems and processes.
• Analyze security alerts in Security information and event management (SIEM) and other external alert sources.
• Search for anomalous activity via manual hunting.
• Escalate complex/unusual incidents to Detection and Response teams. Lead response efforts to low severity incidents.
• Lead response efforts to low severity incidents.
  
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .