Security Operations Analyst

About the Role

Anduril Industries is seeking a Security Operations Analyst to join the Detection and Response team. This role serves as the watchtower for Anduril's critical defense technologies, responsible for monitoring and responding to adversarial activity.

Key Responsibilities

• Triage and respond to alerts/incidents across phishing, endpoints, cloud infrastructure and services, and SaaS applications.
• Build and optimize tailored detection signatures, response playbooks, and response automation using detection-as-code principles.
• Lead the feedback loop for detections, ensuring alerts are fine-tuned to reduce false positives.
• Participate in threat modeling scenarios with cross-functional partners to identify weaknesses across various environments and incorporate findings into security controls or detection signatures.
• Organize and conduct threat hunting and data baselines to identify anomalous patterns in data.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for responding to security events, conducting incident response investigations, and communicating findings to stakeholders.
• Proactively collaborate with stakeholders to guide detection and response maturity, lead incidents, and conduct large-scale data baselines.
• Mentor and guide junior analysts.
• As a Senior SecOps Analyst, serve as an incident commander as necessary.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience in security monitoring, log analysis, and detection engineering within large data sets across endpoint, network, and a wide variety of application log sources.
• Experience in Python development, specifically contributing to a shared codebase for automating SOC operations.
• Experience with one or more SIEM languages (e.g., SPL, KQL, SQL).
• Experience conducting analysis in a data lake environment.
• Broad range of practical security knowledge across endpoint, network, identity, application, and cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) across Windows, Linux, MacOS, AWS/Azure, etc.
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience conducting incident response in the Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Digital Forensics and/or reverse engineering experience is a plus.

Compensation

• US Salary Range: $147,000—$196,000 USD
• Highly competitive equity grants.

Benefits

• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, available at little to no cost.