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 to protect cloud, corporate, endpoint, identity, and production environments.

What you will do

• Lead the triage, investigation, and response for security alerts and incidents
• Act as an escalation point and incident lead
• Coordinate with programming, legal, privacy, and business partners
• Drive the detection lifecycle management
• Identify recurring analyst work and partner with security programming to automate it
• Turn threat intelligence and emerging vulnerabilities into rapid exposure assessments
• 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
• Experience leading investigations end-to-end
• Deep hands-on experience with SIEM and EDR platforms (e.g., Splunk, Google SecOps, CrowdStrike NGSIEM, etc.)
• Ability to write 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)
• Calm, decisive judgment under pressure
• Ability to prioritize competing incidents
• Ability to communicate clearly to technical and executive audiences
• Strong written communication

Nice to have

• SOAR experience is a plus
• Curiosity about AI and emerging technology

Benefits

• 100% pay for benefits for both employees and dependents
• Supplemental medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Critical illness coverage
• Telemedicine
• Life and AD&D
• Long term disability insurance
• Weekly indemnity (short term disability)
• Retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Mental well-being program through Modern Health providing free therapy and coaching

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. Their Unreal Engine technology is used by game developers and content creators across various industries.