Cyber Security Analyst

Overview

• NVIDIA is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst with deep expertise in incident response, forensics investigation, threat hunting, and proactive cyber defense.
• This role is ideal for a cybersecurity professional passionate about defending enterprise and product environments against advanced threats, and eager to tackle complex investigations across diverse platforms.
• As part of our Cyber Defense & Response team, you will lead efforts to detect, analyze, and respond to sophisticated attacks targeting NVIDIA’s corporate, cloud, and product ecosystems.
• You will leverage your technical skills to drive investigations, orchestrate automated responses, and strengthen our security posture across infrastructure and products.
• This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in the industry, collaborating with elite experts in security, data science, and AI to shape the future of product security technologies.
• If this sounds like a fun challenge and you are a hands-on Security Analyst, we want to hear from you! What you'll be doing: Lead Incident Response efforts for corporate, cloud, and product environments, including investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Perform threat hunting across endpoints, networks, and cloud workloads to proactively identify indicators of compromise, emerging threats, and control gaps.
• Conduct cloud incident response for AWS, Azure, and GCP, and other cloud environments including Kubernetes and containerized workloads, performing log analysis, identity compromise investigations, and workload forensics.
• Drive product security incident response, collaborating with engineering teams to analyze potential exposure to vulnerabilities, exploits, and security flaws in NVIDIA products.
• Perform digital forensics and malware analysis to support investigations and root cause analysis.
• Develop and optimize security orchestration and automation playbooks in partnership with Security Engineering to accelerate detection and response.
• Build and refine detections and defense strategies based on threat models and attacker behaviors across cloud, identity, endpoint, and product telemetry, using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to map adversary tactics and enhance detection coverage.
• Provide guidance to engineering and business teams on secure design and incident handling standards and contribute to security policies, standards, and metrics to continuously improve NVIDIA’s security posture.
• What we need to see: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in incident response and threat hunting, including cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles, identity and access management, and workload protection.
• Experience with product security investigations, vulnerability analysis, and secure coding practices.
• Proficiency in forensic analysis, intrusion detection, and threat intelligence.
• Advanced knowledge of network analysis, OS internals (Windows/Linux/macOS), and web application security, including the ability to detect abnormal behaviors and assess exploit paths.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across global teams.
• Ways to stand out from the crowd: Certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, AWS/Azure Security Specialty, CISSP.
• Experience with cloud-native security tools (e.g., AWS GuardDuty , Azure Sentinel, GCP Security Command Center).
• Development experience in Python, Go, or similar for building security automation.
• Hands-on experience with container security (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD pipeline , and AI security.
• Advanced knowledge of digital forensics and malware reverse engineering.
• NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers.
• We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us.
• If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!.