Cyber Defense Lead — Incident Response & Forensics

NVIDIA Corporation; Crystal Bay (NV); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst with deep expertise in incident response, forensics investigation, threat hunting, and proactive cyber defense. You will lead efforts to detect, analyze, and respond to sophisticated attacks targeting NVIDIA’s corporate, cloud, and product environments.

Join a team collaborating with security, data science, and AI experts to shape the future of product security technologies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on incident response and threat hunting, including cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles, IAM, 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, and web app security.
• Certifications such as GCIH, GCFA, AWS/Azure Security Specialty, CISSP.
• Experience with cloud-native security tools (AWS GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel, GCP SCC).
• Development experience in Python, Go, or similar for building security automation.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Conduct cloud incident response for AWS, Azure, and GCP, and other environments including Kubernetes and containers.
• Perform digital forensics and malware analysis in investigations.
• Develop and optimize security orchestration and automation playbooks with Security Engineering.
• Build and refine detections and defense strategies using threat models and MITRE ATT&CK.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Cloud security

Digital forensics

MITRE ATT&CK

Threat intelligence

Container security

Python/Go scripting

Security automation

Secure coding practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS GuardDuty

Azure Sentinel

GCP Security Command Center

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst with deep expertise in incident response, forensics investigation, threat hunting, and proactive cyber defense. You will lead efforts to detect, analyze, and respond to sophisticated attacks targeting NVIDIA’s corporate, cloud, and product environments.

Join a team collaborating with security, data science, and AI experts to shape the future of product security technologies.