Cybersecurity Analyst

Skechers USA, Inc. is hiring a Cybersecurity Analyst to support the global cybersecurity team with investigations, incident response, threat hunting, and vulnerability management.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security tools, feeds, and dashboards to identify alerts and signals.
• Triage and respond to alerts from internal systems.
• Respond to alerts escalated by managed SOC providers and follow established processes.
• Lead complex, multi-system security investigations from initial signal through containment recommendations and remediation.
• Produce written findings and reports after incident and investigation activities.
• Correlate telemetry across endpoint, identity provider, email, SaaS, cloud, network, and other relevant data sources.
• Use AI/LLM assistants for triage, enrichment, log summarization, timeline development, and detection drafting, with validation against source evidence.
• Detect and account for hallucinated or incomplete AI/LLM analysis during investigation workflows.
• Identify improvements to SOC processes, detections, and workflows, including opportunities for AI, automation, and playbook enhancements.
• Provide technical guidance to team members and support knowledge sharing and skill development.
• Contribute to and report on metrics for alerts, incidents, responses, and SOC operations.
• Assess managed SOC escalations for quality, urgency, and completeness, and provide feedback to improve escalation criteria and alert fidelity.
• Collaborate with global business units and cross-functional groups to guide and support security activities.
• Work with internal stakeholders and managed security partners to respond to alerts and incidents and escalation when needed.
• Stay current on the evolving threat landscape, defensive capabilities, and security tools and techniques, including AI-assisted analysis and automation.
• Conduct threat hunts using threat intelligence to investigate and remediate emerging threats.
• Participate in purple team exercises to strengthen defensive detection and incident response capabilities.
• Analyze vulnerability and exposure signals in context of exploitability, asset criticality, compensating controls, and observed threat activity to prioritize remediation.
• Partner with the Security Engineering team to improve automations and workflows, develop detections, and refine security processes and tools.

Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of cybersecurity operations, incident response, and the technologies used to investigate and contain security events.
• 2+ years of experience in a cybersecurity-focused role (hands-on preferred).
• Experience in cybersecurity operations, incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability management, or closely related work.
• Understanding of enterprise network and system components and their roles (databases, web servers, app servers).
• Familiarity with network and application protocols: TCP/IP, TLS, SSH, DNS, etc.
• Experience investigating, securing, or supporting servers or workstations running Windows, Linux, or OS X.
• Experience working with cloud systems, platforms, and resources.
• Experience using security tools such as EDR and SIEM.
• Understanding of cybersecurity concepts and emerging threats.
• Experience in phishing and malware analysis.
• Strong documentation habits and excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently on complex threat analysis and alert triage while maintaining accuracy and efficiency.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• GIAC, (ISC)2, or other relevant security certifications are a plus.

Technologies

• AI/LLM assistants
• EDR
• SIEM
• TCP/IP
• TLS
• SSH
• DNS
• Windows
• Linux
• OS X

Location: Manhattan Beach, CA (onsite)

Salary: USD 90,000 - 120,000 per yearly

Minimum Experience: 2 years