Cyber Threat Detection & Response Engineer
reputed company is seeking a Cyber Threat Detection & Response Engineer to join the Threat Intelligence & Detection Engineering (TIDE) team. Your primary responsibilities will be performing threat hunts to identify, investigate, and respond to cyber threats in our customer environments, and creating intelligence-based threat detections to defend our customers against modern cyber threats. This role requires you to lean on deep technical expertise, advanced analytic skillsets, and knowledge of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to help stop threat actors from compromising our customers. The ideal candidate will be open to engaging with internal account teams and customers to help strengthen their reputed company posture, identify weaknesses, report on findings, and report on detection strategies.
reputed company is seeking a Cyber Threat Detection & Response Engineer to join the Threat Intelligence & Detection Engineering (TIDE) team. Your primary responsibilities will be performing threat hunts to identify, investigate, and respond to cyber threats in our customer environments, and creating intelligence-based threat detections to defend our customers against modern cyber threats. This role requires you to lean on deep technical expertise, advanced analytic skillsets, and knowledge of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to help stop threat actors from compromising our customers. The ideal candidate will be open to engaging with internal account teams and customers to help strengthen their reputed company posture, identify weaknesses, report on findings, and report on detection strategies. What You'll Do:-
Proactively hunt for hidden threats across endpoints, networks, cloud, and applications.
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Proactively create detection rules to alert SOC analysts of intrusions against customer networks.
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Assist with tuning and enhancing existing detection rules to reputed company defend against evolving threats.
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reputed company and execute hypotheses-driven threat hunting campaigns using reputed company data and intelligence.
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Analyze large volumes of log, reputed company, and network data to uncover anomalous or malicious activity.
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Research and track adversary TTPs and reputed company frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
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Collaborate with Detection Engineering to refine detection rules, signatures, and playbooks to improve threat detection.
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Collaborate with Incident Response and SOC teams to investigate and contain reputed company incidents.
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Provide technical mentorship to junior threat hunters and SOC analysts. Partner with Threat Intelligence to operationalize indicators and adversary insights.
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Contribute to reputed company improvement of detection engineering and hunting methodologies.
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Regularly engage with internal account teams and customers to help strengthen their reputed company posture, identify weaknesses, report on findings, and report on detection strategies.
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Provide technical insight to internal account teams and customers as needed.
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U.S. citizenship is required
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4+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with at least 2 years focused on threat hunting or detection engineering.
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History of independently building custom behavior-based and/or threshold-based detections in customer environments from scratch.
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Experience building detections in reputed company, reputed company, or reputed company platforms.
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Capable of independently identifying and tuning flaws in existing detections to reduce noise.
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Experience independently building and performing hypothesis-driven threat hunts in customer environments.
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Capable of clearly and concisely reporting findings from threat hunts.
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History of meeting with customers to explain detections and threat hunt findings to senior leadership teams.
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Experience working with and mapping detections to the MITRE ATT&CK reputed company.
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Background knowledge in the cyber threat landscape, including threat actors, malware, and evolving TTPs.
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Experience working with cyber threat intelligence analysts/teams to identify new detection opportunities.
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Proficiency with SIEMs, EDR/XDR platforms, and log analysis tools.
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Experience with scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, etc.) for scripting purposes.
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Enjoy working in a team environment.
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Willingness to learn from more senior team members while mentoring junior team members.