Security Analyst, Detection
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Please submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in data analytics, cybersecurity, technology research, anti-abuse, policy, or related fields.
- Experience in SQL, building dashboards, data collection/transformation, visualization/dashboards, or experience in a scripting/programming language (e.g., Python).
Preferred qualifications:
- Certification in Security+ or similar Cyber Security/Incident Response.
- Experience analyzing, triaging, and remediating common information security incidents.
- Experience in automation via coding or scripting.
- Understanding of common attacker tactics, tools, and techniques.
- Ability to work separately, prioritize, and multitask.
- Excellent problem-solving and investigative skills.
About the job
Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.
The Detection Team develops and maintains the signals, tools, and infrastructure that we use, constantly evolving them to match sophisticated attackers. As part of this team, you will conduct investigating security events, threat hunt, and perform malware and indicator analysis.
At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust & Safety is Google’s team of abuse fighting and user trust experts working daily to make the internet a safer place. We partner with teams across Google to deliver bold solutions in abuse areas such as malware, spam and account hijacking. A diverse team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers, we work to reduce risk and fight abuse across all of Google’s products, protecting our users, advertisers, and publishers across the globe in over 40 languages.
Responsibilities
- Analyze security alerts in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and other external alert sources.
- Search for anomalous activity via manual hunting at Alphabet scale.
- Escalate complex/unusual incidents to Detection and Response teams.
- Lead response efforts to reduce severity incidents.
- Support the response to high and medium severity security incidents as directed.
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