Partner 18, Cybersecurity Operations Analyst
Partner 18, Cybersecurity Operations Analyst
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$ 203000 - 236000
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Job Description
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic. We invest in seed to venture to growth-stage technology companies across AI bio healthcare consumer crypto enterprise fintech games and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $45B in assets under management across multiple funds.
Weve established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what its like to be in the founders shoes. Weve invested in companies like Affirm Airbnb Coinbase Databricks Devoted Health Insitro Figma GitHub Instacart OpenSea Roblox Stripe and Substack. Our team is at the forefront of new technology helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.
The Role
As the Cybersecurity Operations Analyst at a16z you will stabilize and strengthen the core of the firms cybersecurity operations. This hands-on role is responsible for leading day-to-day incident response and detection engineering efforts while also identifying and remediating operational gaps in coverage continuity and tooling.
You will provide frontline support across detection triage and containment and help build resilience into CyberOps function through documentation automation and process standardization. You will also help shape the next generation of CyberOps by leveraging AI technologies including generative AI advanced predictive analytics and large language models to augment detection accelerate triage and surface hidden threats. This is a critical role focused on reducing operational risk expanding visibility and ensuring the security team can respond quickly and consistently at scale.
This role requires an in-office presence 2 days a week in our New York City NY office.
To join our team you should be excited to:
- Lead cyber incident response operations from alert triage through containment including post-incident analysis and coordination with stakeholders
- Stabilize and scale core CyberOps workflows by improving documentation response playbooks and team-level knowledge sharing
- Tune and optimize detection rules and telemetry pipelines ensuring high-quality signal and reducing noise across alerts
- Automate repetitive response and triage workflows to improve response time analyst efficiency and operational consistency
- Leverage AI technologies including generative AI and large language models to enhance detection accelerate investigation workflows and identify patterns and threats
- Build operational redundancy and reduce risk ensuring that no single individual is a point of failure for incident response or CyberOps coverage
- Participate in threat hunting and log analysis to identify anomalies gaps and opportunities to improve coverage
- Continuously improve visibility and response capabilities working closely with the broader security IT verticals and platform teams
- Contribute to post-incident reviews and lessons learned helping improve detection logic containment playbooks and response strategy over time
Minimum Qualifications
- 5 years of hands-on experience in a security operations incident response or threat detection role
- Strong technical understanding of detection engineering response workflows and the end-to-end incident lifecycle
- Experience with SIEM platforms (e.g. Splunk Chronicle Crowdstrike Sumo Logic) and ability to create and optimize correlation rules and detection content
- Familiarity with SOAR platforms (e.g. Cortex XSOAR Tines Swimlane) and experience automating common alert triage and response actions
- Deep understanding of event logging and telemetry collection from endpoints cloud platforms and identity systems
- Experience conducting threat hunting across multiple data sources using tools like KQL SPL or custom scripting
- Strong written and verbal communication skills especially in documenting playbooks and summarizing incident findings for technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to operate independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced high-trust environment
- Familiarity with security frameworks such as NIST 800-53 MITRE ATT&CK or CIS Benchmarks to guide detection coverage and response alignment
- Strong documentation skills with the ability to create and maintain technical content user communications training guides and instructional materials that support operational clarity and knowledge sharing
- Curiosity accountability and a commitment to continuous improvement in security operations
- Low ego high empathy and the capacity to collaborate effectively with diverse teams
The anticipated salary range for this role is between $203000 - $236000 actual starting pay may vary based on a range of factors which can include experience skills and scope.
This role is eligible to participate in the a16z carry program and various discretionary bonus programs as well as benefit and perquisite plans including health dental vision disability life insurance 401K plan vacation and sick leave.
a16z culture
- We do only first class business and only in a first class way
- We take a long view of relationships because we are in the relationship business
- We believe in the future and bet the firm that way
- We are all different we recognize that and we win
- We celebrate the good times
- We do it for the team
- We play to win
At a16z we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity age marital or family status disability Veteran status and any other status. These differences are what enables us to work towards the future we envision for ourselves our portfolio companies and the World.
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Employment Type
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