Lead Threat Assessment Engineer
InformaticaBase Salary
$173k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Conduct threat modeling for infrastructure, applications, security architecture, system interactions, and new products or features.
- Correlate threat intelligence, incident-response data, detection telemetry, proprietary security tooling, and internal security and risk signals.
- Analyze endpoint, network, and other security-tool logs to identify coverage gaps and potential control bypasses.
- Translate threat assessments into actionable recommendations for executives, Product Security, Enterprise Security, and Product/Engineering stakeholders.
- Drive security improvements identified from incidents and serve as a subject matter expert during Product team design solutioning.
- Design and orchestrate agentic tooling, organization-specific skills, and human workflows to improve team analysis capabilities.
- Provide applied threat insights in partnership with Threat Intelligence and collaborate with Cyber Security Operations architects and principals on alerting.
- Mentor junior analysts and engineers and help scale team capabilities through automation and security investments.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in threat modeling and security architecture.
- Significant understanding of threat actor tactics and offensive strategies, with strong research, analytical, and data-correlation skills.
- Experience with the Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK, and STRIDE frameworks.
- Familiarity with application security and OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud security, cloud architecture fundamentals, and exploitation and abuse threats affecting SaaS and PaaS providers.
- Proficiency analyzing logs from diverse security tools.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- A related technical degree is required.
- Preferred qualifications include Product or Enterprise Security design-review and security-assurance experience, plus experience automating processes or using AI tooling for workflow and data analysis.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- Base salary is listed separately from bonus, incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com