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 across cloud, corporate, endpoint, identity, and production environments
• Act as an escalation point and incident lead, coordinating with engineering, legal, privacy, and business partners
• Drive the detection lifecycle management, developing, tuning, and retiring detection logic
• Identify recurring analyst work and partner with security engineering 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.)
• 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 and communicate clearly to technical and executive audiences
• Strong written communication
• Self-directed, ownership-driven approach

Nice to have

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

Benefits

• 100% of premiums paid for you and dependents
• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision HRA
• Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401k with competitive match
• Mental well-being program through Modern Health providing free therapy and coaching
• Company-wide paid breaks
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment

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.