Principal Insider Threat Analyst

Apply prior to the end date : October 16th, 2025

Overview

Verizon is looking for an innovative and driven leader with insider threat security operations experience. This role supports a 24x7x365 geographically dispersed team that detects, analyzes, and responds to suspicious activities and potential insider threats. You will mature and enhance existing insider threat defense capabilities by collaborating on efforts to design and implement improved processes and technologies within Verizon's security landscape, and work with cross-functional stakeholders to develop a program for proactive and mitigating measures to detect and respond to threats to Verizons infrastructure, employees, and intellectual property.

This role is part of Verizon Cyber Defenses Insider Threat Operations (ITO) team under Verizon CyberSecurity (VCS). The ITO mission is to protect Verizon by preventing, detecting, and investigating insider threats from malicious or negligent employees, contractors and vendors with minimal disruption to the line of business.

Primary responsibilities

• Support day-to-day operations for insider threat investigations, ensuring case management and alert development life cycles are followed or adjusted when necessary.
• Conduct continuous enterprise-wide insider threat monitoring by reviewing end user activity and identifying threats from SEIM dashboards and tool consoles; respond to automated alerts and perform in-depth analysis to detect potential insider threats.
• Ensure accurate and complete investigations, perform case follow-up, capture lessons learned, develop case studies, and socialize findings with appropriate stakeholders.
• Review and provide feedback to analysts on case work and escalations.
• Develop and maintain documentation that visually depicts insider threat operations workflows to support an innovative program and strengthen security practices.
• Produce metrics and status updates of operational tasks, plus high-level case overviews and executive summaries for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Assist with development and implementation of global insider threat use cases related to data exfiltration, internal fraud, privilege escalations, and IT sabotage across desktops, laptops, servers, mobile, virtual, and multi-cloud environments.
• Research industry trends and best practices to ensure alerting and case management evolve with the cybersecurity field.
• Coordinate and lead meetings with investigative stakeholders and business partners as needed.
• Collaborate to grow and mature ITOs monitoring capabilities of critical data and high-valued assets.
• Support team goals and prioritize / executing tasks to achieve organizational objectives.
• Promote collaboration and accountability in problem-solving, decision-making, and process improvement.
• Support team growth, development, and employee mentorship.

Youll need to have

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Where youll be working

In this hybrid role, youll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, as set by your manager. You must comply with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits help you move forward in your career and life, including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, identity protection, and pet insurance. We offer a matched 401(k), stock incentives, holidays, personal days, parental leave, tuition assistance, and more as part of Verizons total rewards package. Salary varies by location and experience. This is an incentive-based role with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, compensation is adjusted by hours. The salary range for the listed location(s) on a full-time basis is : $120,500.00 - $231,000.00.

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