Cyber Security Analyst

NVIDIA Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst with deep expertise in incident response, forensics investigation, threat hunting, and proactive cyber defense to safeguard enterprise and product environments.

You will lead investigations across corporate, cloud, and product ecosystems, develop automated responses, and strengthen NVIDIA’s security posture by collaborating with cross-functional teams and cutting-edge security technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of hands-on incident response and threat hunting, including cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security principles and workload protection.
• Experience with product security investigations and secure coding practices.
• Proficiency in forensic analysis, intrusion detection, and threat intelligence.
• Advanced knowledge of OS internals and web application security.

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 to identify indicators of compromise.
• Conduct cloud incident response for AWS, Azure, and GCP, including log analysis and workload forensics.
• Drive product security incident response in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Perform digital forensics and malware analysis to support investigations.

Skills

Incident response

Threat hunting

Digital forensics

Threat intelligence

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS GuardDuty

Azure Sentinel

GCP Security Command Center

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst with deepexpertisein incident response,forensicsinvestigation, 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 willleverageyour 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!

Whatyou’llbe doing:

• Lead Incident Responseeffortsfor corporate, cloud, and product environments, including investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery.

• Perform threat hunting across endpoints, networks, and cloud workloads to proactivelyidentifyindicators of compromise, emerging threats, and control gaps.

• Conduct cloud incidentresponsefor 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 andoptimizesecurity 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 Scienceor 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.

• Proficiencyin 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., AWSGuardDuty, Azure Sentinel, GCP Security Command Center).

• Development experience in Python, Go, orsimilar forbuilding security automation.

• Hands-on experience with container security (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CDpipeline ,and AI security.

• Advanced knowledge of digital forensics and malware reverse engineering.

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one ofthe technologyworld’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. Ifyou’re creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!