Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alteryx is a data, automation, and AI company seeking a Senior Security Operations Center Analyst. The role protects products, infrastructure, and applications by triaging alerts, investigating incidents, leading incident response, conducting threat hunts, and improving detection coverage across endpoint, identity, SaaS, and multi-cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Triage and respond to security alerts and incidents across on-prem and multi-cloud enterprise and product environments, leading in-depth investigations using SIEM, EDR, cloud audit logs, identity telemetry, and network data to determine scope, root cause, attacker TTPs, and business impact
- Lead incident communications (severity updates, stakeholder coordination, executive-ready summaries as needed)
- Execute incident response activities through containment and remediation coordination with partner teams (IT, Cloud/Platform, Engineering), including clear escalation when needed
- Produce high-quality incident documentation (timelines, evidence collected, hypotheses tested, IOCs, actions taken, lessons learned) and ensure follow-ups are tracked to completion
- Conduct hypothesis-driven threat hunts mapped to common adversary behaviors (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK)
- Translate hunt findings into actionable improvements: new detections, tuning, playbooks, and telemetry/visibility recommendations
- Develop, tune, and maintain detection content (correlation rules, SIEM analytics, alert logic) to improve coverage and reduce false positives
- Validate detections with testing and retrospective analysis; continuously improve alert fidelity and response workflows
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define and maintain monitoring and detection use cases that drive risk reduction and operational effectiveness
- Perform basic endpoints and/or cloud forensics during escalated incidents and preserve evidence appropriately
- Support malware triage and artifact analysis as needed during investigations
- Investigate cloud-related threats and anomalies using cloud-native security signals and audit telemetry (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Partner with Cloud/Platform teams to close investigation gaps (logging, retention, telemetry coverage) and validate remediation actions
- Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24x7 incident response coverage and serve as an escalation point for high-severity events
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field (or equivalent experience/training)
- 4+ years of relevant security operations / incident response experience
- Strong understanding of the security incident management lifecycle and operational response practices
- Strong experience with SIEM/log management platforms (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, ELK, Snowflake-based analytics, or similar) and demonstrated ability to query and analyze telemetry
- Ability to analyze and interpret security-relevant data including security event logs, system logs, application logs, cloud logs, and device logs
- Hands-on investigation experience using cloud-native security services (e.g., AWS Security Hub, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Google Security Command Center) and cloud logs
- Experience with one or more scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, shell) to support investigations, enrichment, and analysis
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including clear ticket documentation, incident reporting, and stakeholder updates
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a bias toward action and operational rigor
- A master's degree is a plus
- Forensics: Endpoint or cloud forensics, evidence handling, artifact interpretation, malware triage
- Threat Hunting: Demonstrated experience leading hypothesis-driven hunts and operationalizing results into detections, playbooks, and response improvements (e.g., ATT&CK mapping and coverage tracking)
- Detection Engineering: Detection lifecycle ownership (build/test/deploy/tune/retire), alert quality improvement, playbook development
Benefits
- Bonus or commission
- Medical benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Financial benefits
- Wellness benefits
- Time off
- Employee discounts
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