Staff Cyber Detection Incident Analyst Security Operations

Job Description

The Role

GMs Cybersecurity Team safeguards the companys global information assets networks and infrastructure. Our mission is to proactively defend GM against evolving cyber threats through strategic leadership technical excellence and innovative risk management. We seek cybersecurity professionals with advanced expertise capable of driving enterprise security initiatives and influencing organizational resilience.

As aStaff Cyber Detection Incident Analyston GMs Security Operations team you will serve as a technical leader responsible for designing and advancing the enterprises cyber detection strategy across a global hybrid environment. You will leverage deep expertise in endpoint network identity cloud application SaaS telemetry and product data to identify advanced threats improve visibility and enhance the detection ecosystems that protect GMs critical assets.

In this role you will lead complex investigations architect and optimize detection logic across SIEM EDR NDR SOAR cloud-native platforms and products and integrate intelligence-driven analytics that raise GMs defensive maturity. You will work cross-functionally with engineering cloud response identity application and threat intelligence teams to evolve detection architecture strengthen observability and ensure GM maintains resilient scalable and modernized detection capabilities.

This position requires exceptional technical depth the ability to drive detection roadmaps influence enterprise tooling strategy and mentor peers. You will help integrate emerging technologiesincluding large-scale analytics automation and AIto reduce operational friction accelerate threat detection and elevate the maturity of GMs global security operations.

What Youll Do

• Serve as a senior technical authority for cyber detection providing architectural guidance and leadership across SIEM EDR/XDR NDR SOAR and cloud-native security platforms.

• Lead deep-dive investigations and expert-level triage of complex security events using endpoint network identity cloud application and SaaS telemetry.

• Drive incident escalation workflows and partner closely with Incident Response Threat Intelligence Cloud Identity and Engineering teams to ensure rapid and effective containment and remediation.

• Conduct advanced hypothesis-driven threat hunts across on-prem cloud (Azure AWS GCP) SaaS and identity ecosystems using behavioral analytics adversary tradecraft and intelligence-driven methodologies.

• Correlate large-scale telemetry to uncover sophisticated attack patterns stealthy behaviors and systemic visibility gaps.

• Apply expert understanding of OS internals adversary behaviors cloud architectures authentication protocols and network fundamentals to assess impact and guide detection enhancements.

• Integrate threat intelligenceincluding IOCs behavioral analytics and MITRE ATT&CK techniquesinto scalable detection logic analytic frameworks and hunting practices.

• Design develop and tune high-fidelity detections across:

  • SIEM:advanced correlations anomaly models enrichment pipelines

  • EDR/XDR:behavioral rules event-pattern analytics custom detections

  • NDR:network anomalies lateral movement detection protocol analysis

  • SOAR:high-impact automation workflows and enrichment routines

  • Cloud-native tools:Microsoft Defender Sentinel AWS GuardDuty GCP SCC

  • SaaS platforms:O365 major IdP/IAM platforms API telemetry sources

• Evaluate emerging detection technologies research and analytics capabilities to continuously improve visibility reduce MTTD and enhance operational efficiency.

• Mentor analysts and engineers review escalations provide technical leadership and drive standardization of detection processes and quality across teams.

• Influence detection strategy tooling decisions and long-term capability roadmaps across Security Operations and the broader GM security organization.

• Participate in the on-call rotation to support 247 monitoring and response.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in Information Security Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent experience.

• 8 years of experiencein cybersecurity with specialization in detection engineering SOC operations incident response threat hunting or intrusion detection.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex investigations and drive detection improvements at enterprise scale.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret large complex datasets and communicate findings to both technical and executive audiences.

• Advanced experience with EDR/XDR SIEM NDR identity protection platforms cloud-native and SaaS security tools.

• Experience with vehicle security embedded systems security or in-vehicle telemetry.

• Experience supporting manufacturing or OT security environments.

• Strong understanding of application security runtime observability CI/CD pipelines and API abuse detection techniques.

• Hands-on scripting experience (Python PowerShell KQL etc.) to enrich detections and automate investigative workflows.

• Deep experience with network security monitoring packet analysis and intrusion detection methodologies.

• Proven experience detecting and responding to threats in cloud environments (Azure AWS GCP).

• Demonstrated success mentoring analysts/peers and excellence working effectively in a collaborative team environment.

• Expert-level understanding of log analytics detection engineering principles behavioral analytics and adversary TTPs.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Industry certifications such asGCIA GCIH GCTI GCTH AWS/Azure/GCP Security or equivalent advanced certifications.

• 10 yearsof experience in detection engineering threat hunting or advanced security operations.

• Experience leading enterprise-scale security initiatives detection modernization programs or tooling evaluations.

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