Security Analyst, Observability and Operations, gTech Risk Solutions

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Google place Atlanta, GA, USA ;
Chicago, IL, USA

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By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Atlanta, GA, USA;
Chicago, IL, USA
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• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in security operations (SOC), incident response, threat hunting, IT compliance or equivalent.
• Experience with log analysis, data querying (SQL), or monitoring security controls.

• Experience coordinating cross-functional security incidents.
• Familiarity with Google’s data analysis infrastructure (e.g., business intelligence platform).
• Understanding of common security frameworks, access governance models, and the vulnerability management life-cycle.
• Ability to translate operational security findings into technical engineering requirements.

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

gTech Risk helps protect Google and its users by identifying and implementing controls for risks. To ensure gTech's security and agility, the team analyzes gTech business processes to find control gaps, collaborates with stakeholders to resolve these gaps, and provides risk expertise to engineer innovative solutions.

gTech Risk Solutions Engineering is transforming from a manual process led organization to a proactive engineering powerhouse. Operating as a federated security partner to Google's central security organizations, we design and build highly contextualized security solutions tailored for the gTech business ecosystem.

Our mission is upfront risk prevention through technical delivery excellence, shifting the paradigm from "risk-chasing" to "prevention by design."

In this role, you are the observability and feedback engine of the team. You will ensure our autonomous remediations and agentic workflows are operating securely and effectively. You will monitor the automated flows of agentic tooling and manage the operational fallback tiers when AI workflows flag anomalies.

Utilizing your deep security domain knowledge, you will conduct threat hunting, perform complex log analysis (SQL/Business Intelligence Platform), and triage incident alerts. Crucially, your intelligence will feed directly back into our engineering roadmap. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $123000 - $176000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Monitor agentic/automated flows, triage edge cases, and manage operational fallbacks when agentic workflows require human escalation.
• Run day-to-day threat hunting operations, perform advanced log analysis (SQL/Business Intelligence Platform), and triage data transfer and access alerts.
• Monitor access alerts, audit permission mappings, and verify the efficacy of our automated provisioning tools.
• Act as triage lead for the gTech ecosystem: monitor incident queues, conduct initial forensic analysis, and orchestrate handoffs with central Detection and Response (D&R) teams.
• Verify false positives, triage legacy issues, and track remediation velocity to ensure alignment with…