Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Description

As a Senior Cyber Security Analyst, you will identify, investigate, and mitigate malicious web activity across large-scale digital environments. The role combines threat analysis, traffic investigation, and detection engineering to improve visibility and protection against bots, fraud attempts, and other web-based threats.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and investigate potential security threats using log/investigation platforms (e.g., Kibana/OpenSearch and Snowflake).

• Analyze security logs and investigate suspicious activity such as spikes in traffic or new/disappearing attack signals.

• Determine whether activity is malicious or benign and drive appropriate responses, including blocking via detection engineering.

• Develop, tune, and deploy detection rules based on HTTP attributes, headers, device fingerprints, and other indicators.

• Monitor existing detections for continued performance and identify unusual changes in volume, sources, IPs, domains, or other indicators.

• Support customer onboarding by analyzing web traffic flows and configuring baseline detection/protection rules.

• Investigate customer-reported incidents and missed detections; analyze attack traffic and implement mitigations.

• Document newly discovered threats with evidence, findings, and indicators.

• Communicate findings to Engineering and stakeholders with technical details for remediation and improvements.

• Partner with internal teams via ticketing systems/portals to investigate issues and resolve security requests.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in Cybersecurity, Threat Research, or Threat Intelligence

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related field

• Strong understanding of web technologies and networking fundamentals (HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, DNS, authentication, cookies, browser-server interactions)

• Experience in web security research, bot management, fraud detection, or related domains

• Hands-on experience with threat investigations and IOC analysis

• Experience with log analysis/investigation platforms such as Kibana/OpenSearch, Snowflake, Datadog, or similar

• Strong SQL skills with large datasets and UDFs

• Basic knowledge of JavaScript for web/client-side analysis

• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills; ability to manage investigations independently

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Passion for cybersecurity and continuous learning

Benefits

• Work on real-time threat detection and bot mitigation for enterprise clients, with ongoing improvements to security detections.