Information Security Analyst - Capabilities Job in Vmware

Job Description

Job Description

Information Security Analyst: Detection Content Management

Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

You have an analytical mind, and a strong drive to catch the bad guys. Youre interested in more than the easy answer -- you want to find creative and scalable solutions to drive threat detection to the next level. Working with new and unique technologies excites you. You want to push all of the buttons, pull all of the levers, and understand how things work. In addition to these, you want to do this for a company who provides IT For Good, and is dedicated to being a good citizen of the world. You want to join a growing team who collaborates closely with colleagues across the business to achieve security goals together.

What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?

Were looking for someone who can help us understand the threats that our organization faces, and help us design and improve our monitoring capabilities. You will need to review and understand threat intelligence in order to prioritize and drive our threat modeling and monitoring strategy in order to reduce attacker dwell time. Youll need hands-on experience with threat modeling as well as the latest security products, in order to help us prioritize our efforts.

Success in Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• Review and threat model 100% of our critical applications
• Engage with our Security Engineering team, review detection capabilities for existing security tools and close visibility gaps against common attacker techniques.

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing regularly?

• Most of your time will be spent deep-diving into our applications and services to understand and develop threat models to drive security monitoring.
• Collaborate in-person, over slack, or through email with the security operations team in order to brainstorm and implement improvements to our detection capabilities.
• Spend your time learning VMwares processes, standards, and guidelines. Were looking for someone who can find opportunities to improve process, and drive those improvements across our teams.
• Build and develop metrics and reporting to define the success of our security monitoring. Youll use these metrics to prioritize use case development.
• Define processes and capabilities to validate our ability to detect and respond to threats.
• Communicate your products to leadership

What is leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team?

This role reports to the Manager, Detection Content Management for VMware Threat Management. His experience includes information technology, internal audit, and security operations. His management philosophy is about encouraging teams to work collaboratively to solve large problems. If you fail, fail forward mistakes are considered opportunities to grow. Question everything and challenge the status quo If the answer is because weve always done it that way its time to take a hard look at the solution to find a better way. He takes inspiration from authors and thought leaders such as Jocko Willink, Simon Sinek, Kristen Hadeed, John C. Maxwell, and others to drive his leadership philosophy for the team.

The team values collaboration and discussion to drive execution of well-planned projects that create creative and well-designed outcomes. Were a diverse and globally distributed team that encourages flexibility in order to arrange schedules to fit the needs of the teams and their families.

What are the benefits and perks of working with VMware?

You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting

• Employee stock purchase plan
• Medical coverage, retirement, and parental leave plans for all family types
• Generous time off programs
• 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
• Rethink's neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
• Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)
• Healthy and local inspired snacks in all our pantries