E-3 Visa Security Operations Analyst Jobs
Security Operations Analyst roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, or a related field. The E-3 has no lottery and no annual cap, so Australian professionals can pursue these roles year-round without competing for limited slots the way H-1B visa applicants do.
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About the team: The IT security team is responsible for enterprise IT global cyber security, server security, endpoint security, application security construction, and protection work. They work to improve overall IT security capabilities and security posture, providing security processes, security assessments, security operations, and security vulnerability management services. The team also supports IT teams and business departments in meeting their security requirements.
- Monitor security alerts and events generated by various security tools and technologies, such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, firewalls, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems.
- Build and tune high-fidelity detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS telemetry sources.
- Reduce alert fatigue and false positives through improved severity tagging, disposal logic, and enrichment workflows.
- Conduct threat and scenario-driven threat hunts based on TTPs, anomalies, and threat intelligence.
- Identify and close detection gaps uncovered during incident response or hunting operations.
- Design and maintain SOAR playbooks and automation logic for triage, enrichment, and response.
- Partner with CTI and detection engineers to operationalize threat intelligence and attacker behaviors.
- Develop and maintain detection logic aligned with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and MaGMa.
- Contribute scripts and tooling (e.g., Python, PowerShell) to improve investigation and response efficiency.
- Support a global SOC by contributing to alert routing, follow-the-sun workflows, and detection health monitoring. This position is part of a team that provides 24/7 support and requires working scheduled shifts, which may include holidays.
- Assist in post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement of detection coverage and response workflows.
- Coordinate Security Incident Response lessons learnt and post-mortem activities with XFN stakeholders.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s):
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or STEM field.
- Experience working in or supporting a 24/7 global security operations environment.
- Strong proficiency with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Chronicle, Elastic) and EDR tools (e.g., SentinelOne, CrowdStrike).
- Hands-on experience writing and tuning detection logic (e.g., Sigma, EQL, KQL, YARA).
- Deep understanding of attacker tactics and techniques (MITRE ATT&CK, threat modeling).
- Scripting ability in Python or similar languages to support automation, enrichment, or detection-as-code workflows.
- Experience conducting investigations using logs from identity providers, endpoints, cloud, and network telemetry.
Preferred Qualification(s):
- Familiarity with SOAR platforms and automation of incident response tasks.
- Experience with detection-as-code pipelines, GitOps, or CI/CD rule deployment.
- Experience contributing to threat hunt frameworks or purple team exercises.
- Knowledge of red teaming, penetration testing, malware analysis, or digital forensics.
- Certifications such as GCIH, GCIA, GCTI, OSCP, or equivalent are a plus.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok Accommodation
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $111600 - $235600 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Responsibilities
About the team: The IT security team is responsible for enterprise IT global cyber security, server security, endpoint security, application security construction, and protection work. They work to improve overall IT security capabilities and security posture, providing security processes, security assessments, security operations, and security vulnerability management services. The team also supports IT teams and business departments in meeting their security requirements.
- Monitor security alerts and events generated by various security tools and technologies, such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, firewalls, and endpoint detection and response (EDR) systems.
- Build and tune high-fidelity detections across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS telemetry sources.
- Reduce alert fatigue and false positives through improved severity tagging, disposal logic, and enrichment workflows.
- Conduct threat and scenario-driven threat hunts based on TTPs, anomalies, and threat intelligence.
- Identify and close detection gaps uncovered during incident response or hunting operations.
- Design and maintain SOAR playbooks and automation logic for triage, enrichment, and response.
- Partner with CTI and detection engineers to operationalize threat intelligence and attacker behaviors.
- Develop and maintain detection logic aligned with frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and MaGMa.
- Contribute scripts and tooling (e.g., Python, PowerShell) to improve investigation and response efficiency.
- Support a global SOC by contributing to alert routing, follow-the-sun workflows, and detection health monitoring. This position is part of a team that provides 24/7 support and requires working scheduled shifts, which may include holidays.
- Assist in post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement of detection coverage and response workflows.
- Coordinate Security Incident Response lessons learnt and post-mortem activities with XFN stakeholders.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification(s):
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or STEM field.
- Experience working in or supporting a 24/7 global security operations environment.
- Strong proficiency with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Chronicle, Elastic) and EDR tools (e.g., SentinelOne, CrowdStrike).
- Hands-on experience writing and tuning detection logic (e.g., Sigma, EQL, KQL, YARA).
- Deep understanding of attacker tactics and techniques (MITRE ATT&CK, threat modeling).
- Scripting ability in Python or similar languages to support automation, enrichment, or detection-as-code workflows.
- Experience conducting investigations using logs from identity providers, endpoints, cloud, and network telemetry.
Preferred Qualification(s):
- Familiarity with SOAR platforms and automation of incident response tasks.
- Experience with detection-as-code pipelines, GitOps, or CI/CD rule deployment.
- Experience contributing to threat hunt frameworks or purple team exercises.
- Knowledge of red teaming, penetration testing, malware analysis, or digital forensics.
- Certifications such as GCIH, GCIA, GCTI, OSCP, or equivalent are a plus.
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy – a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok Accommodation
TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://tinyurl.com/RA-request
Job Information
【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $111600 - $235600 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Security Operations Analyst
Align your credentials to U.S. specialty occupation standards
USCIS requires your degree field to match the role's duties. A cybersecurity or IT degree maps cleanly to Security Operations Analyst work, but an unrelated degree paired with experience needs documentation showing equivalence before you approach employers.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
DOL's public LCA disclosure data shows which employers have filed Labor Condition Applications for security analyst roles. Companies with recent LCA activity already understand the E-3 visa process, which reduces your sponsorship education burden during interviews.
Clarify the SOC code with your hiring contact
Security Operations Analyst roles are typically filed under SOC 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts). Confirming this with the recruiter early prevents LCA misclassification, which can delay DOL certification and push back your consulate appointment.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for offer-to-consulate execution
Once you have an offer, Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service handles LCA submission, visa paperwork, and consulate preparation end-to-end, so you and your employer avoid the compliance missteps that stall security analyst sponsorships.
Get your Australian degree equivalency documented early
A three-year Australian bachelor's in IT or cybersecurity is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree for E-3 purposes, but having a credential evaluation ready before your interview removes a common employer objection before it slows negotiations.
Negotiate who manages the LCA filing timeline
DOL certifies most LCAs within seven working days, but that clock only starts when the employer submits correctly. Establish upfront whether your employer's HR team or an external filing service owns that step so your start date doesn't slip due to an administrative gap.
E-3 Visa Security Operations Analyst: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Security Operations Analyst jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for E-3-eligible roles. You can filter by job title and see which employers have a track record of sponsoring Australian workers, so you're not cold-applying to companies that have never handled an E-3 before.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Security Operations Analyst role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes. Security Operations Analyst positions consistently meet the USCIS specialty occupation standard because the role requires a theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge, typically in cybersecurity, computer science, or information technology. DOL classifies the role under SOC 15-1212, a category USCIS has accepted in E-3 LCA filings. A job description that lists a bachelor's degree as a minimum requirement, not just a preference, is essential to establishing specialty occupation status for your specific offer.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Security Operations Analyst roles?
The practical difference is availability. H-1B requires winning a lottery with roughly a 25% selection rate, meaning most applicants wait years for a slot. The E-3 has a 10,500 annual allocation that has never been fully used, so an Australian professional with a qualifying offer can file and attend a consulate appointment without lottery risk. Both visas require employer-sponsored LCA certification through DOL, and both recognize Security Operations Analyst as a specialty occupation, so the substantive filing requirements are similar.
Can I switch employers or move to a new security analyst role while on an E-3?
You can change employers on an E-3, but your new employer must file a fresh LCA with DOL and you'll need a new visa stamp if your current stamp lists your previous employer's details. There's no portability rule like AC21 for H-1B holders, so work authorization doesn't automatically carry over. Starting the LCA process with your new employer before your current E-3 status ends is the cleanest way to avoid a gap in authorization.