Senior II Security Analyst

Do you enjoy cyber security and taking ownership to get the job done? Are you excited about working with cutting edge security systems? Join our Infosec Threat and Vulnerability Management InfoSec TVM Team is responsible for safeguarding the security of Akamai's systems, infrastructure and providing internal advocacy for security practices. Opportunity to work closely with product and platform teams throughout the company. Become a Security Subject Matter Expert We're seeking a SecOps Engineer to serve as the operational hub of Guardicore's R&D Security Team, safeguarding our platform. Collaborating with engineers, you'll oversee detection, response, and vulnerability management to ensure risks are mitigated. If reducing noise, identifying threats, and ensuring remediation completion excites you, this role offers an engaging opportunity. As a Security Analyst Senior II, you will be responsible for: Analyzing vulnerabilities by extracting findings from platforms like Wiz, Vulcan, Grype, and Tenable, while quantifying infrastructure impact for prioritization. Creating AI automations streamlining security operations: auto-triaging and containing SIEM while prioritizing vulnerability data from integrated tools effectively. Engineering tools for signal quality by designing correlation searches, refining detection rules, and automating SOAR playbooks to reduce false positives efficiently. Ensuring remediation governance by creating tickets, assigning owners, enforcing deadlines, and verifying fixes through rescans and evidence collection thoroughly. Creating visibility and KPIs by managing dashboards tracking vulnerabilities, remediation speed, SLA adherence, MTTR/MTTD, patch age, and risk trends. Monitoring SIEM telemetry, triaging alerts, containing and eradicating threats, and leading root-cause analysis alongside post-mortem evaluations. Strengthening controls by mapping emerging TTPs (MITRE ATT&CK) to defenses, recommending detections, and implementing safeguards across cloud, container, and on-prem environments. Do what you love To be successful in this role you will: 4+ years in Security Operations / SOC / Incident Response, handling live incidents and vulnerability remediation programs end-to-end. Demonstrate expertise with SIEM (e.g., Splunk), SOAR (e.g., XSOAR), and create parsers, analytics, or automation scripts using Python, Bash, Go. Design vulnerability-management dashboards and SLA tracking to enhance leadership transparency through proven experience and effective implementation strategies. Demonstrate expertise in network protocols, Linux/Windows internals, and cloud telemetry (GCP or AWS) to adapt swiftly during investigations. Demonstrate expertise with contemporary vulnerability-management tools and implement risk-based prioritization frameworks effectively. Present metrics, incident summaries, and remediation roadmaps effectively to engineers and executives with clarity and professionalism. About us At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day. Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone. Our focus is simple: Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance. Security : Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data. Content Delivery : Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch. AI : Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform. At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works. Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits. FlexBase adapts to your job's needs Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work. We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both. Connect with us on social and see what life at Akamai is like! Originally posted on Himalayas