Senior Cyber Defense Operations Analyst

The role

You will lead investigations and incident response while helping reinvent how the SOC operates. You will turn repeatable analysis into automated, AI-assisted workflows.

What you will do

• Lead the triage, investigation, and response for security alerts and incidents across cloud, corporate, endpoint, identity, and production environments
• Act as an escalation point and incident lead, coordinating with programming, legal, privacy, and business partners
• Drive the detection lifecycle management, developing, tuning, and retiring detection logic
• Identify recurring analyst work and partner with security programming to automate it
• Turn threat intelligence and emerging vulnerabilities into rapid exposure assessments and actionable response
• Develop and maintain playbooks, runbooks, and operational metrics
• Set and elevate standards for investigation quality and case documentation
• Coach analysts and hold managed-service partners accountable to SLAs

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or threat detection, including leading investigations end-to-end
• Deep hands-on experience with SIEM and EDR platforms (e.g., Splunk, Google SecOps, CrowdStrike NGSIEM, etc.)
• Writing effective queries and detections
• Strong understanding of attacker tradecraft and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
• Ability to reconstruct activity from logs and telemetry
• Experience investigating in cloud environments (AWS and/or GCP), SaaS, and identity platforms
• Scripting or programming skills (Python or similar)
• Curiosity about AI and emerging technology
• Calm, decisive judgment under pressure
• Ability to prioritize competing incidents and communicate clearly to technical and executive audiences
• Strong written communication
• A self-directed, ownership-driven approach

Nice to have

• SOAR experience is a plus

About the company

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company that has been making award-winning games and engine technology for over 30 years.