Snr. Information Security Analyst (Position located in Brazil)

KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15-years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.

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To learn more about our team and office culture in São Paulo, Brazil, visit the following links. 
Careers Page: https://www.knowbe4.com/careers/locations/sao-paulo
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Location/KnowBe4-S%C3%A3o-Paulo-Location-EI_IE969384.0,7_IL[…]M_-C1lsxoZq7Cx8IriVE8MkrzuTmnJzqego77RAWZz9sqGt_55BflwYKpQeg
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The Snr. Information Security Analyst serves as a technical lead for the organization’s threat detection and response operations. This role is responsible for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise data by leading security reviews, risk assessments, and incident response efforts. Beyond technical execution, the Senior Analyst drives operational excellence by architecting automated workflows and providing advanced mentorship to the SOC team. This position bridges the gap between high-level security strategy and hands-on threat hunting to maintain a resilient security posture.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Security, vulnerability, and risk assessments across services, cloud and applications, using both automated tools and manual testing procedures.
• Operational Leadership. Direct the SOC team in identifying, investigating, and triaging security alerts; act as the lead investigator for complex or high-stakes security incidents
• Advanced Threat Hunting. Proactively hunt for threats across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments using behavior-based analysis and threat intelligence feeds.
• Cloud Security Governance. Lead regular security audits of AWS/Azure/SaaS environments, developing and enforcing hardening standards to mitigate cloud-specific risks
• Conduct regular security reviews and risk assessments for cloud environments to identify vulnerabilities and threats. Develop strategies to mitigate risks and enhance the overall security posture of cloud services.
• Monitor environments for security incidents and anomalies. Lead the response to security breaches or attacks, coordinating efforts to contain and resolve incidents while minimizing impact.
• Collaborate with various business units, ensuring adherence to security policies and procedures.
• Advanced Scripting. Expertise in Python or Bash for parsing complex logs, automating data collection during forensics, and integrating disparate security APIs.
• SOC Mentorship. Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for junior analysts, developing training materials and conducting tabletop exercises to improve team readiness.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in information security, information systems, or similar preferred
• Relevant industry certification in information security, management information systems security or similar preferred 
• Minimum 2+ years experience in information security and Technology or related role
• AWS Cloud Security: Proficient in  Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments, including managing security groups, IAM roles, and other security relevant aspects of AWS. Skilled in implementing best practices for AWS security, automating deployments, and optimizing cloud resources for security and efficiency.
• Elastic Search SIEM Expertise: Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Elastic Search as a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool within a SOC environment. Skilled in configuring and customizing Elastic Search for optimal log collection, analysis, and real-time monitoring of security events.
• Advanced Threat Investigation Skills: Proficient in conducting in-depth investigations of cyber threats within cloud environments. Skilled in analyzing security logs, network traffic, and system behaviors to identify and understand the nature of potential security incidents. Capable of using various forensic tools and techniques to trace the source of threats and recommend mitigation strategies.
• SOC Alert Expertise: Experienced in optimizing SOC alerts for cloud-based infrastructures. Skilled in configuring and fine-tuning alerting systems to minimize false positives while ensuring critical threats are identified and escalated promptly. Understands the nuances of different cloud environments and tailors alerting mechanisms accordingly.

Our Fantastic Benefits

Note: An applicant assessment and background check may be part of your hiring procedure.

Individuals seeking employment at KnowBe4 are considered without prejudice to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please visit www.knowbe4.com/careers/request-accommodation.

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