Security Analyst III - Cyber Defense

Who we are:

We are a dedicated team of security professionals focused on evolving Playlist's security posture. Our collective goal is to protect the future, fostering increased opportunities for wellness businesses worldwide to empower their customers in leading secure and healthy lives. Committed to a higher purpose, we continuously challenge ourselves and our organization to excel, understanding the strength derived from collaborative efforts towards a common goal. We are advocates for a diverse workplace, fostering an environment where individuals can bring their authentic selves to contribute to our shared success. At the heart of our achievements lies the belief in the value of our people. If you share our passion and vision, consider joining our team, and let's explore the remarkable feats we can achieve together!

Your role:

The Security Analyst III - Cyber Defense is a critical expert position within our Security Operations Center, serving as the second most senior member of the SOC team. This role combines expert-level incident response leadership with team mentorship, operational process improvement, and proactive threat defense capabilities.

The ideal candidate brings deep security operations experience and proven incident command abilities, enabling them to lead our most complex security incidents, elevate our team's technical capabilities, and drive operational maturity. You'll work directly with the Director of Cyber Defense to strengthen our incident response resilience, optimize detection coverage, and build the foundational processes that enable our SOC to scale.

Success in this role requires broad technical expertise across modern cloud and SaaS environments, strong technical leadership and mentorship abilities, self-directed operational thinking, and the capability to identify and solve problems proactively. You'll be the expert in the room that others look to for guidance during our most challenging security events.

You'll pursue continuous improvement to help Playlist achieve its mission: Powering the world's fitness and wellness businesses and connecting them with more consumers, more effectively, than anyone else.

You will:

• Lead complex security incidents as incident commander from detection through resolution, providing expert-level response capabilities
• Mentor our incident response team on advanced IC techniques, stakeholder management, driving incident closure, and conducting effective after-action reviews
• Serve as technical escalation point for investigations requiring deep expertise in cloud security, application security, and modern adversary techniques
• Develop team capabilities through hands-on mentorship during real incidents, teaching investigative methodologies and building technical depth in cloud, application, and detection fundamentals
• Proactively identify and fix operational gaps without being directed—establish SOC metrics, improve processes, document workflows, and optimize our MSSP partnership
• Improve detection coverage by conducting post-incident analysis, mapping gaps to MITRE ATT&CK, partnering with MSSP on custom rules and alert tuning
• Conduct threat-informed activities including hypothesis-driven threat hunts, operationalizing threat intelligence, and translating threat landscape insights into detection improvements
• Build relationships with service-owning teams to improve cross-team coordination and SOC engagement

About the right team member:

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