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Security Operations Analyst roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, which requires employers to document recruitment efforts before filing an I-140 immigrant petition. SOC code 15-1212 covers this occupation, and defense contractors, financial institutions, and managed security service providers regularly sponsor foreign professionals for permanent residency.
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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 Green Card Sponsorship as a Security Operations Analyst
Document your SOC code alignment early
PERM certification ties your role to SOC code 15-1212. Collect job descriptions, performance reviews, and project records that match the duties listed under that code before your employer begins the prevailing-wage determination with DOL.
Target employers with active PERM histories
Search OFLC disclosure data to identify companies that have filed PERM applications for security analyst roles in the last two years. Employers with a filing history have cleared the internal legal and HR approvals required to sponsor.
Use Migrate Mate to filter green card sponsoring jobs
Search Migrate Mate by job title and filter for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship to surface Security Operations Analyst openings at employers already committed to the PERM process, cutting out roles where sponsorship is uncertain.
Verify your degree field maps to the role
PERM requires a direct relationship between your degree and the offered position. A cybersecurity, computer science, or information systems degree strengthens your I-140 petition; an unrelated field may require USCIS to evaluate equivalency, adding processing time.
Negotiate PERM filing into your offer letter
Ask for a written commitment that your employer will initiate PERM within a defined period after your start date. Without this, EB-3 sponsorship can stall indefinitely while you remain on a temporary visa, resetting your priority date clock.
Confirm your offered wage clears the prevailing wage
Before accepting an offer, cross-check the role's location and level against the OFLC Wage Search to confirm your salary meets or exceeds the Level II or Level III prevailing wage. A wage below that threshold will cause DOL to reject the PERM application.
Green Card Security Operations Analyst: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Security Operations Analyst role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Security Operations Analyst positions qualify for EB-3 as a skilled worker role requiring at least a bachelor's degree. Roles demanding a master's degree or significant specialized credentials can qualify for EB-2. The classification depends on how your employer writes the minimum job requirements in the PERM labor certification application, so the job description language matters significantly.
How is the green card process different from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary status with a three-year initial period and an annual lottery for cap-subject petitions. The EB-3 green card process has no annual cap for most nationalities and results in permanent residency. It requires PERM labor certification first, which typically takes 12 to 18 months before USCIS even adjudicates the I-140 petition, making the total timeline longer but the outcome permanent.
Which employers most commonly sponsor Security Operations Analyst green cards?
Defense contractors, financial services firms, healthcare systems, and managed security service providers file the largest share of PERM applications for this occupation. These sectors have established immigration programs and recurring headcount needs for SOC code 15-1212 roles. You can verify an employer's filing history through OFLC disclosure data before applying.
How can I find Security Operations Analyst jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Standard job postings rarely specify PERM or EB-2/EB-3 sponsorship explicitly. Migrate Mate filters openings by employment-based green card sponsorship so you can search Security Operations Analyst roles at employers already committed to the PERM process, rather than raising sponsorship during interviews with employers who may not have a program in place.
What happens to my green card application if I change jobs during the PERM process?
Leaving your sponsoring employer before your I-140 is approved restarts the entire process, including PERM labor certification. Once your I-140 is approved and your priority date is more than 180 days old, AC21 portability lets you move to a same or similar role without losing your place in the visa queue, though you must be in adjustment of status proceedings.