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Role Summary
Ensuring shift health and respond to escalations as a part of the follow the sun 24/7 operating model. This role will perform advanced cybersecurity investigations for security event alerts across a numerous technologies and brands from phishing alerts: identity, cloud, EDR, network, UEBA, API, WAF, user and other team reported events.
A subject matter expert (SME) by understanding market trends and influencing team practices, demonstrating advanced cybersecurity (vulnerability management, threat hunting, specialization areas like pen testing), advanced networking (MPLS/GRE tunnels, BGP, VPN deployment), advanced system administration (system installation/configuration, virtual infrastructure, production issue troubleshooting), intermediate understanding of application layers (web, backend, streaming apps), and intermediate scripting (complex, clean, well-commented scripts in Python, PowerShell).
In this role, you will:
- Perform advanced level of security investigation on the following areas: application security, cloud security, data security, network security, and perimeter security
- Analyze security signals, threat intelligence, and vulnerability data to detect, investigate, and remediate security issues, driving long-term risk reduction through automation and scalable solutions.
- Provide in-depth knowledge of cyber-attack analysis and cyber kill-chain framework
- Gather data and drill down to root cause analysis, ability to recommend effective courses of containment, remediation, and communicate to the various levels in the organization
- Suggest improvements to current Security Detection practices and procedures
- Flexibility as the position will require shifts to cover 24x7 follow the sun in line with US and APAC operations.
- Responsible for responding immediately to security issues ensuring alignment to SLAs and driving resolution and mitigation
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in security engineering.
- Several years of hands-on experience in security engineering, including building or operating security tooling, services, or platforms within complex, distributed systems.
- Proven experience owning the security posture of one or more services or platforms, including responsibility for implementing controls, monitoring, and remediation within that scope.
- Strong technical proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, with experience applying secure coding practices, working with APIs, and understanding data models in modern software architectures.
- Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading shifts in a security operations center or CISRT
- Demonstrated success leading security initiatives or projects end to end, such as rolling out new security controls, detection capabilities, or automation across multiple teams or services.
- Depth in one or more security domains such as application security, infrastructure security, identity and access management, detection engineering, or vulnerability management, with a track record of measurable risk reduction.
- Cybersecurity certifications such as SANS or CISSP
- Experience applying data-driven approaches to prioritize security work, tune detections, and improve operational excellence, including defining metrics and feedback loops for continuous improvement.
The total cash range for this position in Prague is Kč1,077,000.00 to Kč1,507,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to Kč1,723,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
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