Cybersecurity Incident Lead & Threat Hunter

Skechers; Manhattan Beach (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Skechers is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to join our global security team in California. You will lead complex investigations, coordinate with security partners, and contribute to threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and proactive security efforts.

The role emphasizes high-quality incident handling, agile teamwork, and a hands-on approach to modern security challenges. Candidates with 2+ years in cybersecurity and a solid operations background are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• Experience in cybersecurity operations and incident handling.
• Familiar with enterprise networks, servers and cloud environments.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Proactively monitor tools, feeds, and dashboards for security alerts.
• Identify and triage alerts from internal systems and respond to alerts from managed SOC providers.
• Follow established process while responding to incidents and preparing reports.
• Lead complex, multi-system security investigations from initial signal through containment recommendations, remediation, and written findings.
• Correlate telemetry across endpoint, identity provider, email, SaaS, cloud, network, and other data to determine what happened, what was affected, and what action is required.
• Use AI/LLM assistants for triage, enrichment, log summarization, timeline development, and detection drafting while validating outputs against source evidence and recognizing hallucinated or incomplete analysis.
• Identify opportunities to improve SOC processes, detections, and workflows, including recommending where AI, automation, or playbook enhancements could reduce manual effort, improve consistency, or accelerate response.
• Provide technical guidance and assistance to other team members, fostering knowledge sharing and skill development within the team.
• Provide input to and report on metrics for alerts, incidents, responses, and operations.
• Assess managed SOC escalations for quality, urgency, and completeness; provide feedback that improves escalation criteria and alert fidelity.
• Work closely with multiple groups and business units globally to provide guidance and support.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and managed security partners to respond to alerts and incidents and elevate as necessary.
• Stay current with the evolving threat landscape, defensive capabilities, and relevant security tools and techniques, including AI-assisted analysis, automation, and emerging attacker tradecraft.
• Conduct threat hunts leveraging threat intelligence to proactively identify, investigate, and remediate emerging security threats across the organization.
• Participate in purple team exercises, combining offensive and defensive tactics to strengthen the organization's security posture, enhance threat detection and improve incident response capabilities.
• Analyze vulnerabilities and exposure signals in context of exploitability, asset criticality, compensating controls, and observed threat activity to help prioritize remediation.
• Collaborate closely with the Security Engineering team to enhance automations and workflows, develop new detection capabilities, and identify areas for improvement in security processes and tools.

Skills

Hands-on cybersecurity operations

Incident response

Threat hunting

Vulnerability management

Documentation

Analytical thinking

Independent work

Fast-paced environment

AI-assisted analysis

Tools

EDR

SIEM

Job description

Skechers is seeking a Cybersecurity Analyst to join our global security team in California. You will lead complex investigations, coordinate with security partners, and contribute to threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and proactive security efforts.

The role emphasizes high-quality incident handling, agile teamwork, and a hands-on approach to modern security challenges. Candidates with 2+ years in cybersecurity and a solid operations background are encouraged to apply.