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Security Analyst II, Threat Detection (English, Spanish)

Mexico City, Mexico (On-site)

Security Analyst II, Threat Detection (English, Spanish)

1 Hour ago • 2 Years + • Cyber Security

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Job Description

As a Security Analyst II, Threat Detection at Google, you'll create and maintain a safe operating environment for users and developers. This involves defending network boundaries, hardening systems against attacks, providing security services to protect sensitive data, monitoring for intrusions, and proactively identifying vulnerabilities. Responsibilities include searching for anomalous activity at scale, escalating incidents, leading responses to low-severity incidents, supporting responses to higher-severity incidents, analyzing security alerts from SIEM and other sources, and contributing to overall threat detection and response efforts. You'll work within Google's Core team, impacting critical technical decisions across the company.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
2 years data analysis experience
2 years project management experience
Fluent English and Spanish
Ability to work non-standard hours
Threat detection and response

Good to have:

Security+ or similar certification
Automation experience (coding/scripting)
Incident analysis and remediation
Understanding of attacker TTPs

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 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

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 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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