Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst - Application/Cloud Security Automation - Hybrid 2 Days Chicago, IL - FreeWheel

Comcast Advertising; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 107,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, seeks a Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst to automate data pipelines and BI for security across cloud and application domains. You will design scalable analytics, integrate CAASM data, and produce executive dashboards to drive risk reduction.

The role covers cloud and application security, vulnerability management, and continuous improvement of data quality and reporting processes in a hybrid Chicago environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with security reporting, dashboards, and data pipelines.
• Hands-on Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security experience.
• Experience using AI tools for security workflows.
• Ability to integrate data from multiple teams into a centralized platform.
• Knowledge of CAASM, asset inventory, and exposure management.

Responsibilities

• Designing and maintaining automated security data pipelines and dashboards.
• Administering Splunk Enterprise and Cloud security analytics and reporting.
• Developing centralized security reporting across multiple domains.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to define metrics and data sources.
• Creating executive and operational dashboards with actionable insights.
• Defining severity models and SLAs, and monitoring remediation performance.
• Automating compliance reporting and evidence collection.
• Communicating risk and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Information Security

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Security Operations

Written and Verbal Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Splunk Enterprise

Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk SmartStore

Job description

Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst – Application/Cloud Security Automation - Hybrid 2 Days Chicago, IL - FreeWheel

Location: Chicago, Illinois

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst – Leveraging AI for Automation of Data Pipelines and BI. Develops and operates scalable security data, analytics, and reporting capabilities that provide a centralized view of risk across FreeWheel and Comcast. This role integrates data from cloud security, application security, asset management, AI Security, vulnerability management, and other security domains into trusted data pipelines, dashboards, and compliance reporting. The analyst works independently and across multiple engineering and security teams to define actionable severity and priority models, establish remediation service-level agreements, improve data quality, and drive timely risk reduction.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities:

• Designing, building, and maintaining automated security data pipelines, ETL processes, data models, dashboards, and reporting solutions that consolidate information from multiple teams and data sources.
• Administering, optimizing, and supporting Splunk Enterprise, including SmartStore, and Splunk Enterprise Security capabilities used for security analytics, reporting, and operational visibility.
• Developing centralized security reporting across cloud security, application security, asset management, artificial intelligence, vulnerability management, compliance, and related security domains.
• Partnering with security, engineering, product, infrastructure, governance, risk, and compliance teams to define reporting requirements, authoritative data sources, metrics, and data-quality controls.
• Creating clear executive, operational, and compliance dashboards that translate complex security data into actionable insights, trends, risks, and remediation priorities.
• Defining and evolving severity and priority models, remediation service-level agreements, exception criteria, and escalation paths for different types of findings and vulnerabilities.
• Monitoring remediation performance and driving adherence to agreed service-level agreements across engineering groups through transparent metrics, stakeholder engagement, and follow-through.
• Integrating Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) and related asset inventory data to improve asset coverage, ownership, exposure visibility, and risk prioritization.
• Automating recurring compliance reporting and evidence collection while maintaining traceability, accuracy, appropriate access controls, and audit readiness.
• Evaluating data gaps, duplicate or conflicting records, pipeline failures, and reporting inconsistencies; coordinating corrective actions with source-system owners.
• Supporting security analytics and reporting for public cloud environments, with an emphasis on AWS services, security telemetry, asset context, and control status.
• Communicating recommendations, tradeoffs, dependencies, and risk clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders across FreeWheel and Comcast.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Experience with business intelligence, security reporting, dashboards, ETL, data integration, and data pipeline technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Enterprise Security; experience with Splunk SmartStore is preferred in addition to other similar technologies.
• Proven experience with using AI tools both for development and other security workflows.
• Experience integrating data from multiple teams and source systems into a centralized security reporting or analytics platform.
• Experience with security compliance reporting, control evidence, metrics, and audit-support processes.
• Experience with CAASM, attack surface management, asset inventory, exposure management, or comparable security data platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to define severity and priority models and remediation service-level agreements, and to influence engineering teams to meet them.
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts, including vulnerabilities, findings, controls, asset ownership, risk, and remediation workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders across FreeWheel and Comcast.
• Familiarity with public cloud security and AWS is preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, solve ambiguous data problems, and deliver reliable reporting with limited supervision.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Support a culture of inclusion in how you work and lead.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.C

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills:

Information Security; Problem Solving; Collaboration; Security Operations

Salary:

Illinois Pay Range: $107,243.85 - $160,865.77

Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

7-10 Years