Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.
Position Overview:
We are looking for an Autonomous and proficient Security Analyst who is passionate about Cyber Security, Fraud and Abuse. As a Security Analyst at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic 24/7/365 team dedicated to identify, investigate, and prevent fraudulent activities against DigitalOCean’s Platform. You will not only do that,
What You’ll Do:
- Actively monitor SIEM, and internal dashboards for security events, fraudulent sign-ups, and platform abuses.
- Investigate, identify and prevent or mitigate abusive activities such as intrusion attempts, DDoS, malware distribution, phishing attacks, etc. originating from (or) to DigitalOcean Platform.
- Leverage industry standard security technologies such as SIEM, EDR and other monitoring tools to detect, investigate and respond to security alerts.
- Perform basic analysis of malicious scripts or binaries found on the platform to understand the threat actor's intent.
- Conduct a comprehensive analysis by correlating multi-source telemetry to map adversary TTPs, determine incident scope, and assess overall impact.
- Conduct proactive hunts to detect and eliminate security threats.
- Locating trends in abuse/threat vectors, communicating with leadership to apprise of extent, and advocating for appropriate product changes to prevent future occurrences.
- Work within a ticket management system with specific daily operational level targets completed with a quality resolution.
- Vetting abuse claims, responding to reporters and helping customers get back on the platform.
- Engineering approaches to gathering security data, turning it into useful insights, and working with tech teams to resolve threats.
- Responsible for the process to reduce false positives while preventing the bad-actors.
- Escalating security incidents to Senior Analyst or DFIR teams as needed for deeper analysis and remediation.
- Establishing an understanding of DigitalOcean’s entire production environment, from applications to infrastructure, keeping up-to-date with material changes and future directions.
- Building strong relationships with the other technical teams across our engineering and infrastructure functions.
Key responsibilities:
- Security Operations Monitoring: Investigate and analyze detections from a diverse set of security tools within a high-availability, 24/7/365 operational environment to ensure proactive threat detection and continuous protection.
- Incident Response: Conduct thorough investigations of detections, evaluate the scope of the attack, identify affected systems, and determine the necessary steps for further analysis.
- Threat Intelligence and Awareness: Stay informed on emerging and existing threats by analyzing attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, and reviewing security event reports to proactively strengthen defenses.
- Abuse Operations: responding to abuse reports and engaging with our customers to help them solve system compromises as well as secure their exposed services.
What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience with 2 or more years of experience in Security operations.
- Knowledge of Security Information & Event Management (SIEM)
- knowledge of the Security Operation Center (SOC)
- Understanding of TCP/IP concepts, application protocols and knowledge of database structures and working with Unix/Linux.
- Intellectual Curiosity and Self-Motivation to perform complex tasks.
- Clear written and verbal communications skills to include; technical writing, presenting.
- Consistently improving security as the platform scales, driving continuous improvement through data collection and correlation, being mindful that security should be an efficiency enabler for the business - not a detractor.
- Bonus: Ability to code, script, or automate classes of problems rather than handling them manually (eg.Python, Bash, Go, Ruby)'
This is a hybrid role based out of Bengaluru, India.
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
