Senior Threat Defense Analyst - Cybersecurity

It should come as no surprise that Alaska Airlines is recognized as one of Seattle’s most desirable companies for engineers and technology professionals.  Our technology teams are regularly disrupting the way our guests experience air travel.  We are innovators and creators, striving to continually improve our award-winning technology in ways that make travel as simple, enjoyable and seamless as possible.  We are not content to rest on our successes.  We take pride in the fact that our ideas have become the norm across the industry, and we are always thinking about what's next!  Our culture of collaboration, history of launching industry-leading products, and experienced teams that work at the highest levels of software development help us to pioneer technologies that are creating an airline people love.

Senior Cybersecurity Incident Response Analyst.

The Senior Threat Defense Analyst works as a subject matter expert in rapid threat detection and appropriate response. This role includes some leadership responsibilities, incident response duties, communication to leadership about current threat actors and their tools, and techniques and processes, as well as providing mentorship to other analysts.

• Acts as a subject matter expert in rapid threat detection and appropriate responses.
• Performs complex hunting activities for IOCs within the enterprise to efficiently and accurately identify external and internal threat actors.
• Effectively and efficiently aggregates, analyzes, and reacts to threat intelligence data using threat intelligence feeds and analytics platforms to profile threat actors.
• Exercises considerable judgement to develop processes and perform analysis, triage, and response to escalated security events and incidents generated by various sources.
• Provides technical leadership investigating and resolving security events and incidents and coordinates among internal support teams and external managed security services providers to drive incident resolution.
• Organizes, executes, and participates in red team/blue team exercises to test threat defense controls.
• Conducts and makes recommendations on testing to determine whether vulnerabilities and flaws can be exploited and/or attack attempts may be successful.
• Creates and tell stories that articulate observed threats and compromises.
• Develops new and different ways of detecting and disrupting kill chain activities occurring within the environment.
• Maintains awareness of evolving security threats, threat actors, and their TTPs.
• Provides mentorship to other analysts on the team.

Required

• 4 years in CyberSecurity Threat Intelligence and/or Detection and Response experience.
• Bachelor’s degree, with a focus in information security or computer science preferred, or an additional 2 years of experience in lieu of this degree.
• Industry recognized professional security certification (e.g., CISSP, CISA, CEH, or similar).
• Experience performing information security incident response tasks.
• Ability to react quickly, decisively, and deliberately in high stress situations.
• SIEM technologies and forensics tool experience.
• Experience identifying and gathering relevant information, correlating data, and generating reports on threats, IOCs, security incidents, vulnerabilities, and risks.
• Experience reviewing and analyzing network packet captures.
• Strong understanding of attacker methodologies and tactics, including kill-chain phases and responses.
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills to document and communicate findings, escalate critical incidents, and interact with other teams.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum age of 18.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• Experience setting policy for host firewalls, DLP, content filtering, IPS, FIM, anti-virus and other security solutions, appliances, and tools.
• Ability to perform malicious code reverse engineering and use sandbox technology to perform malware analysis.
• Completion of a digital forensics training program resulting in an institutional or vendor certification.
• Experience with behavioral analytics tools.
• Experience with a scripting language (e.g., Python, Perl, Shell, etc.).

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance, and be remarkable.

Salary Range

$104,900-$173,050

Pay Details

Remote: $104,900-157,350

Seattle: $115,350-$173,050

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Horizon employees. Alaska/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range.

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air
• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
• Generous 401k match program
• Quarterly and annual bonus plans
• Generous holiday and paid time off
   

For more information about Alaska/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement  

It is the policy of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.   

We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.  

We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”).  All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.   

To implement this policy, we will: 

(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories; 
(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and 
(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories. 

Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions  of VEVRAA. 

Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations 
Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.