Cybersecurity Analyst

WHO WE ARE:Headquartered in Southern California, Skechers—the Comfort Technology Company—has spent over 30 years helping men, women, and kids everywhere look and feel good. Comfort innovation is at the core of everything we do, driving the development of stylish, high-quality products at a great value. From our diverse footwear collections to our expanding range of apparel and accessories, Skechers is a complete lifestyle brand.ABOUT THE ROLE:A Cybersecurity Analyst at Skechers is a key member of our global cybersecurity team. This role places you at the front lines of our cyber defense practice, where you will lead complex investigations, liaison with senior security resources, and serve as a primary point of contact for our global security partners. While incident handling and response are central to the role, our Cybersecurity Analysts also provide meaningful input into our threat intelligence practice and support proactive security work, including threat hunting and vulnerability management, to strengthen the organization’s overall security posture. This is an excellent opportunity for an analyst who has built a solid foundation in Tier 1 alert triage and is ready to take ownership of higher-complexity work with greater independence. The role is especially well suited for someone who wants to join an agile cybersecurity team that values innovation and a continuous improvement mindset. The candidate who will find the most success and fulfillment brings a genuine interest and passion for cybersecurity, a love for learning, a positive attitude, and a desire to roll up their sleeves and dive into the deep end.WHAT YOU'LL DO:· Proactively monitor tools, feeds, and dashboards for security alerts.· Identify and triage alerts from internal systems and respond to alerts from managed SOC providers.· Follow established process while responding to incidents and preparing reports.· Lead complex, multi-system security investigations from initial signal through containment recommendations, remediation, and written findings.· Correlate telemetry across endpoint, identity provider, email, SaaS, cloud, network, and other data to determine what happened, what was affected, and what action is required.· Use AI/LLM assistants for triage, enrichment, log summarization, timeline development, and detection drafting while validating outputs against source evidence and recognizing hallucinated or incomplete analysis.· Identify opportunities to improve SOC processes, detections, and workflows, including recommending where AI, automation, or playbook enhancements could reduce manual effort, improve consistency, or accelerate response.· Provide technical guidance and assistance to other team members, fostering knowledge sharing and skill development within the team.· Provide input to and report on metrics for alerts, incidents, responses, and operations.· Assess managed SOC escalations for quality, urgency, and completeness; provide feedback that improves escalation criteria and alert fidelity.· Work closely with multiple groups and business units globally to provide guidance and support.· Work closely with internal stakeholders and managed security partners to respond to alerts and incidents and escalate as necessary.· Stay current with the evolving threat landscape, defensive capabilities, and relevant security tools and techniques, including AI-assisted analysis, automation, and emerging attacker tradecraft.· Conduct threat hunts leveraging threat intelligence to proactively identify, investigate, and remediate emerging security threats across the organization.· Participate in purple team exercises, combining offensive and defensive tactics to strengthen the organization's security posture, enhance threat detection and improve incident response capabilities.· Analyze vulnerabilities and exposure signals in context of exploitability, asset criticality, compensating controls, and observed threat activity to help prioritize remediation.· Collaborate closely with the Security Engineering team to enhance automations and workflows, develop new detection capabilities, and identify areas for improvement in security processes and tools.WHAT YOU'LL BRING:· Hands-on cybersecurity operations, incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability management, or closely related cybersecurity experience.· Understanding of general enterprise network and system components and their roles (databases, webservers, app servers).· Familiarity with network and application protocols (TCP/IP, TLS, SSH, DNS, etc.).· Experience working with servers or workstations running Windows, Linux, or OS X.· Experience investigating, securing, or supporting cloud systems, platforms, and resources.· Experience with security tools like EDR, SIEM, etc.· Understanding of cybersecurity concepts and emerging threats.· Experience in phishing and malware analysis.· Strong documentation habits with excellent written and oral communication skills.· Strong work ethic with attention to detail.· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.· Ability to work independently on complex threat analysis and alert triage while maintaining accuracy and efficiency.· Ability to excel in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment.REQUIREMENTS:· Strong working knowledge of cybersecurity operations, incident response, and the technologies commonly used to investigate and contain security events.· 2+ years of experience working hands on in a cybersecurity focused role preferred.· GIAC, (ISC)2, or other relevant security certifications a plus.The pay range for this position is $90,000 - $120,000/yr USD.#L1-TB1About SkechersSkechers, a global Fortune 500 company, develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle and performance footwear, apparel, and accessories. Serving over 180 countries and territories, Skechers connects customers to products through department and specialty stores, e-commerce and digital stores, and through our more than 5,300 Skechers retail locations.Equal Employment OpportunitySkechers is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and respectful work environment. Skechers provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic established by local, state or federal law.Reasonable AccommodationApplicants for employment who require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job should request appropriate accommodation by emailing View email address on us.fitly.work perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job responsibility satisfactorily. The skills, abilities and physical demands described are representative of those duties that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified for the job position, to perform the essential functions.SummaryLocation: Manhattan Beach, CAType: Full time