Sr. Cyber Detection Incident Analyst Security Operations

Job Description

The Role

GMsCybersecurity Teamsafeguards 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 a Cyber Detection Incident Analyst on GMs Security Operations team you will play a critical role in strengthening the organizations ability to detect and analyze to advanced cyber threats across a global hybrid enterprise. You will leverage expertise across endpoint network cloud identity and application detection technologies to identify malicious activity improve alert fidelity and enhance the platforms and workflows that drive GMs cyber detection mission.

In this role you will lead high-impact investigations develop and refine detection logic across SIEM EDR NDR SOAR and cloud-native security tools and apply threat intelligence to strengthen GMs detection posture. You will also partner closely with many teams across Cyber Security and GM to improve visibility analytics automation and investigative efficiency across Security Operations.

This position requires deep technical analysis designing and tuning high-efficacy detections leading incident escalation workflows and collaborating across the broader security organization to ensure resilient scalable and modern detection coverage. You will mentor analysts guide detection strategy influence tooling roadmaps and help integrate emerging technologies including automation and AI to reduce manual workload and improve detection maturity.

What Youll Do

• Conduct expert-level triage and deep-dive analysis of security events using EDR NDR identity telemetry application logs SIEM analytics SOAR workflows and cloud-native security tools.

• Lead incident escalation workflows and collaborate with the Incident Response and other partner teams drive timely containment and resolution of security threats.

• Perform proactive threat hunting across endpoints networks identity systems cloud platforms (Azure AWS GCP) and SaaS environments using threat intelligence behavioral analytics and TTP/IOC research.

• Correlate telemetry across diverse systems to identify sophisticated attack patterns.

• Apply strong understanding of OS internals cloud architectures networking authentication protocols and adversary tradecraft to assess risk determine impact and drive escalation decisions.

• Integrate threat intelligence (IOCs behavioral patterns ATT&CK-aligned TTPs) into detection logic use cases and hunt strategies.

• Develop tune and maintain high-efficacy detections across:

  • SIEM: correlation rules anomaly detection enrichment logic

  • EDR/XDR: behavioral detections process analytics custom rules

  • NDR: network anomaly detection lateral movement patterns

  • SOAR: automation workflows enrichment routines

  • Cloud-native tools: Azure Defender AWS GuardDuty GCP SCC

  • SaaS platforms: O365 API-based telemetry

• Evaluate emerging detection technologies analytics methods and research findings to improve visibility reduce MTTD and optimize analyst efficiency.

• Act as a technical detection lead by mentoring analysts reviewing escalations and driving consistency in detection quality and workflows.

• Support 247 monitoring as part of an oncall rotation.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

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

• 5 years of experience in cybersecurity with a focus on detection engineering security operations incident response intrusion detection or security event analysis.

• Strong analytical and investigative skills with the ability to interpret complex datasets and communicate findings effectively.

• Ability to create tactical scripts (Python PowerShell KQL Bash etc.) to supplement investigative workflows and enrich detections.

• Experience with network security monitoring (IDS packet capture flow analysis) and proper techniques for identifying and responding to security events.

• Experience detecting threats in cloud environments (Azure AWS GCP) and using cloud-native detection tooling.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills with focus on cross-team partnerships.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor other analysts contribute to team development and work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

• Deep knowledge of SIEM technologies logcentric analytics and correlation logic.

• Deep knowledge of EDR platforms and behavioral-based detection methodologies.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Industry certifications such asGCIA GCIH AWS/Azure/GCP security certifications or equivalent.

• 7 years of experience in cyber incident detection threat hunting or security operations.

• Experience withvehicle security automotive architectures or embedded security telemetry.

• Experience supportingmanufacturing or OT securityenvironments.

• Experience with application security runtime and application telemetry CI/CD pipelines and API abuse detection.

• Experience leading security projects and incident response initiatives.

• Malware analysis.

About GM

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Why Join Us

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