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As a Security Operations Support Agent,You are responsible for the initial triage and validation of security alerts, ensuring that environment remains secure while minimizing noise for system owners. You will work closely with our automated systems to identify true/false positives, apply initial containment measures, and act as a critical escalation point when high-severity threats are detected.
Responsibilities
- Automated Triage & Validation: Execute first-level triage on security alerts triggered by our centralized SIEM (Google SecOps). Validate true/false positives and apply initial containment actions (e.g., isolating containers, locking service accounts) using established playbooks.
- Incident Response Support: Assist the SOC team during high-severity incidents by providing initial investigative data, helping with containment, and documenting actions in our incident management platform (FireHydrant).
- Operational Health Monitoring:Use Capability Dashboards to monitor the security health of your assigned service areas, identifying and reporting on potential policy drifts or misconfigurations.
- Playbook Management: Assist in the ongoing maintenance and optimization of automated response playbooks. Help identify gaps in current detections and contribute feedback to the SOC engineering team for continuous improvement.
- Collaboration & Communication:Act as a bridge between the SOC and system owners. Communicate findings clearly, provide contextual assistance for Tier 2/3 escalations, and participate in post-incident reviews to drive long-term resilience.
- Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain documentation for common alert types, triage workflows, and escalation procedures to promote operational consistency and efficiency.
Requirements
- Experience: 1+ years of experience in IT, Security Operations, Help Desk, or a similar technical support role.
- Technical Troubleshooting: Strong analytical skills with experience troubleshooting hardware, software, and access issues.
- Security Mindset: Understanding of core security concepts, including IAM, endpoint protection, and the OSI model. Familiarity with SIEM/SOAR platforms (e.g., Google SecOps) is a plus.
- Communication: Ability to communicate complex security concepts simply and concisely, especially when coordinating with system owners or during incident response.
- Problem Solving: A keen ability to multitask, apply critical thinking to triage, and solve problems under pressure.
- Collaborative Spirit: You value shared accountability, attention to detail, and a team-oriented approach to security.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with cloud environments (GCP preferred) and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Familiarity with scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) or detection-as-code workflows.
- Experience with common security tools like CrowdStrike Falcon, Okta, or Zscaler.
- Understanding of retail-specific security threats and compliance standards (e.g., PCI-DSS).
Skills Required
- Minimum of 4+ years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, ethical hacking, or application security engineering.
- Deep understanding of common web-based attacks (SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE) and mitigations.
- Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, Ruby, or Bash to automate security tasks.
- Comprehensive knowledge of network protocols and security concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, TLS, and IPSEC.
- Strong experience with security testing tools (e.g., BurpSuite Enterprise, SAST, DAST, IAST).
- Working knowledge of OWASP security fundamentals and API identity/access management (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT).
- Ability to work with high autonomy and communicate technical security findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Relevant information security certification(s) such as OSCP, CEH, OSWE, or CISSP.
- Direct experience managing or triaging a public bug bounty program (e.g., HackerOne, BugCrowd).
- Experience leveraging Slack/ChatOps to automate security tasks or reporting.
- Experience with cloud orchestration and Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Google Deployment Manager).
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tooling like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, PCI DSS, SOC2, or CCPA.
Target Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Target and has not been reviewed or approved by Target.
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Healthcare Strength — Health benefits are accessible to hourly team members at relatively low hour thresholds and include no‑cost, 24/7 virtual medical care and expanded mental‑health support. This breadth is positioned as a relative strength compared to typical retail offerings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match with immediate vesting and options like Roth 401(k) and stock purchase. These features strengthen long‑term savings for a wide range of roles.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support includes paid family leave, backup care, and reimbursements for adoption and surrogacy. These resources complement paid time off and holidays for eligible team members.
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