Security Analyst

Role Overview

We are looking for a Security Analyst to  join the Bloomreach GIST (Global Information Security & Technology) team to help protect our environment from threats, vulnerabilities, and sophisticated attackers. Your work will have a significant impact on numerous customers across various e-commerce verticals and hundreds of millions of online users. As a core member of our globally distributed 24/7 Security Operations Team, you are expected to work from one of our India offices ( Bengaluru) or from home. This role is ideal for someone who has built a solid foundation in security operations and is ready to take the next step — owning more complex work, developing specialised skills, and contributing more meaningfully to the team's detection and response mission

Your job will include, but is not limited to:

• Monitor, analyze, and interpret security, system, application, cloud, and infrastructure logs to identify suspicious activity, configuration irregularities, and potential security incidents.
• Leverage security tools, custom-built dashboards, threat intelligence, and proactive investigation techniques to detect anomalous or malicious activity.
• Monitor cloud infrastructure and services for security-related events, misconfigurations, and indicators of compromise.
• Monitor the evolving threat and vulnerability landscape, including security advisories, emerging threats, and relevant vulnerabilities, and coordinate or escalate findings as appropriate.
• Investigate security alerts, incidents, and service requests, performing appropriate triage, analysis, documentation, escalation, and follow-up.
• Develop, maintain, tune, and improve security detection use cases and alerts within SIEM and other security monitoring platforms.
• Design, implement, and maintain automation workflows using SOAR or similar security orchestration and automation technologies.
• Collaborate with Product Security, Infrastructure Security, Application Security, GRC, Engineering, and other relevant teams during cross-functional security investigations.
• Work with GRC, Privacy, Legal, Product, and technical teams during security or privacy-related incidents and investigations, providing technical findings and evidence where required.
• Participate in major incident calls and support incident response activities, including investigation, evidence gathering, timeline development, and preparation of incident summaries.
• Document, follow, and execute Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), security playbooks, investigation procedures, and escalation processes.
• Create, manage, maintain, and continuously improve security use cases, playbooks, runbooks, and knowledge-base articles.
• Support audit-related activities by gathering security evidence, validating controls, and collaborating with relevant stakeholders as required.
• Maintain a working knowledge of AI and Large Language Model (LLM) tools such as Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude, and understand their practical application within Security Operations.
• Understand common authentication and credential-management concepts, including public/private key authentication, API keys, access tokens, service accounts, and the secure handling of credentials.
• Be comfortable working with command-line interfaces (CLI), APIs, IDE-based tools, and agent-based workflows commonly used in modern security and cloud environments.
• Take ownership of responsibilities assigned during the shift, ensuring effective handovers, timely escalation, and appropriate follow-through.
• Proactively engage relevant stakeholders and escalate risks, incidents, blockers, or concerns when necessary.
• Maintain a positive approach toward continuous learning, professional development, and upskilling as security technologies, threats, and operational practices evolve.

Professional experience, skills & requirements

Required Experience

• 3–5 years of hands-on experience working within a 24×7 Security Operations Center (SOC), Cyber Fusion Center, or equivalent security operations function.
• Hands-on experience in at least one or more of the following areas:
• SaaS platform security
• Cloud security, particularly AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• API and container security
• Threat intelligence and threat hunting
• Vulnerability management
• SIEM or SOAR administration, engineering, or operational use
• Strong hands-on experience using SIEM platforms for security monitoring, investigation, correlation, and detection engineering. Experience with Splunk is preferred.
• Practical experience with SOAR platforms and security automation workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and related capabilities such as threat intelligence, vulnerability/exposure management, device control, or data protection.
• Hands-on experience with CSPM/CNAPP platforms such as Wiz, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, Prisma Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sysdig, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience assessing, interpreting, prioritizing, and managing vulnerabilities using platforms such as CrowdStrike Exposure Management/Spotlight, Qualys, Rapid7, Wiz, or equivalent.
• Practical working experience with AWS or GCP is mandatory, including an understanding of cloud identity, logging, networking, compute, storage, and security controls.
• Basic scripting skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or equivalent for security operations, investigation, or automation use cases.

Incident Response & Coordination

• Demonstrated experience investigating and coordinating security incidents across technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to act as an Incident Commander / Incident Coordinator for security incidents, driving the response from initial triage through containment, remediation, recovery, and closure.
• Ability to establish clear ownership of investigation workstreams, actions, dependencies, and follow-up activities during an incident.
• Ability to make operational decisions during an incident, prioritize investigation activities, and escalate matters requiring specialist technical, legal, privacy, compliance, or management authority.
• Ability to maintain accurate incident timelines and ensure key findings, decisions, actions, risks, and outstanding items are appropriately documented.
• Ability to provide clear and timely incident status updates to relevant stakeholders and Security leadership.
• Experience supporting or leading post-incident reviews, lessons-learned exercises, and follow-up remediation tracking.

Security Knowledge

• Good understanding of the cybersecurity incident lifecycle, including identification, triage, investigation, containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident activities.
• Working knowledge of security frameworks and methodologies 
• Understanding of cybersecurity risk concepts and the ability to assess the potential technical and business impact of identified security issues.
• Ability to monitor and assess emerging cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and industry developments and determine their relevance to the organization.
• Strong understanding of security monitoring and investigation concepts, including the ability to correlate information across multiple security and infrastructure data sources.
• Understanding of authentication and credential-management concepts, including public/private key authentication, API keys, access tokens, service accounts, and secure credential handling.

Analytical & Operational Skills

• Ability to independently investigate and manage security events of moderate complexity, while appropriately escalating higher-risk, complex, or unfamiliar situations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to apply logical reasoning during investigations and decision-making.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to connect findings across logs, cloud platforms, endpoints, threat intelligence, identity systems, applications, and other relevant sources.
• Willingness to participate in and take ownership of Proofs of Concept (PoCs), security-tool evaluations, process improvements, and operational initiatives.
• Proactive approach to improving detections, automation, monitoring coverage, playbooks, documentation, and team knowledge.
• Ability to work with command-line interfaces, APIs, IDE-based tools, and modern security or cloud engineering workflows.
• Working knowledge of AI/LLM tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or equivalent, including their practical and secure application within Security Operations.

Communication & Collaboration

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to communicate investigation findings, risks, status, and required actions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate confidently and effectively during active security incidents and major incident calls.
• Experience working within globally distributed teams and collaborating effectively across cultures, regions, functions, and time zones.
• Collaborative and team-oriented approach, with the ability to work effectively with Security, Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, GRC, Privacy, Legal, and other business stakeholders.
• Ability to engage relevant stakeholders and escalate incidents, risks, blockers, or concerns in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Ability to provide concise and accurate shift handovers, operational updates, and incident summaries.

Shift Requirements

• Willingness and ability to work in a 24×7 monthly rotating shift schedule, including weekends.
• The position follows a five-day work week, with shift timings and weekly days off determined according to the applicable rotation schedule.
• Ability to independently own responsibilities assigned during a shift and ensure effective handover and follow-through.
• Willingness to take ownership during active security incidents occurring within the assigned shift and coordinate the response until an appropriate handover or closure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Entry-level or intermediate cybersecurity certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CySA+, GIAC GSEC, cloud security certifications, or equivalent industry-recognized certifications.
• Previous experience working within a SaaS, e-commerce, cloud-native, or technology company.
• Experience supporting security operations in environments involving large-scale cloud infrastructure, APIs, containers, distributed applications, or SaaS platforms.
• Previous experience acting as an Incident Coordinator, Incident Commander, or security incident lead is highly desirable.

Your success story will be:

In the first 30 days you will

• Understand the roles & responsibilities of SOC team, in-scope vs out of scope tasks
• Read &  understand SOPs, Policies & working procedures of the team
• Shadow peers in day to day work, overlook tickets, alerts, incidents, understand the current state of ongoing projects/enhancements etc
• Understand the team's incident response procedures, escalation paths, and shift structure. Begin handling lower-severity alerts and incidents under guidance from senior analysts

In the next 30 days you will (60 days from start)

• Start owning incidents, tasks as independent contributor with a peer shadowing you
• Participate in incident related calls, cross team/department meetings
• Handle SIEM/SOAR/EDR events. Demonstrate consistent adherence to SOPs and ticket hygiene standards. Contribute at least one update or improvement to a runbook, playbook, or knowledge base article based on hands-on experience

In the next 30 days you will(90 days from start)

• You will start documenting or tweaking existing SOPs, process document
• You will bear responsibilities of representing team in forums/meetings/discussions
• You will start managing shift alone when needed
• You will adapt yourself to the service improvement mindset and contribute. Show measurable growth in investigation quality, speed, and documentation. Begin developing a specialisation area (e.g., cloud security monitoring, detection engineering, threat intelligence) aligned with team needs and personal development goals to overall success of the team