Staff Threat Intelligence Analyst

Overview:

Avalara is looking for a Staff Threat Intelligence Analyst to join the Detection and Response Team. In this role you'll:

Develop and automate security workflows, playbooks, and tools to improve efficiency of security operations.

Proactively search for, identify, and analyze new and existing techniques to detect advanced and targeted threats.

Research and evaluate emerging threats and security technologies to provide recommendations for maturing the overall security posture.

Create and enhance detections for malware, attacker techniques, threat actor methodology, and suspicious events.

Maintain and enhance SIEM and SOAR playbooks and processes.

Produce well documented, resilient, and manageable code that supports streamlining and automating processes.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

Develop and automate security workflows, playbooks, and tools to improve efficiency of security operations.

Proactively search for, identify, and analyze new and existing techniques to detect advanced and targeted threats.

Research and evaluate emerging threats and security technologies to provide recommendations for maturing the overall security posture.

Create and enhance detections for malware, attacker techniques, threat actor methodology, and suspicious events.

Maintain and enhance SIEM and SOAR playbooks and processes.

Produce well documented, resilient, and manageable code that supports streamlining and automating processes.

Qualifications:

Understanding of tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) of threat actors.

Experience in incident analysis and response using industry standard frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and the cyber kill chain.

Experience supporting incident response and familiar with common incident response procedures, processes, and tools.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Scripting and automation skills are preferred.

Strong experience in the design and implementation of detection signatures spanning multiple security log sources (Splunk, EDR, etc.).

Previous experience leveraging threat intelligence to detect and respond to adversaries.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information security, or relevant experience.

Certifications related to digital forensics and incident response is a plus.

About Avalara:

We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.

Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

EEO Statement

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

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