Remote Security Threat Detection Engineer

Summary

Cloud Security Services is seeking a remote 6-month Security Threat Detection Engineer Consultant to support clients' Threat Management objectives. The role involves designing, developing, testing, monitoring, and tuning detections, writing alerting strategies, building custom solutions, assisting the Incident Response team, and collaborating with the Threat Intelligence team.

Requirements

• 1 – 3 years experience with hands-on experience with full-lifecycle detection engineering in support of a security operations team
• Experience as a Security Operations Analyst or Incident Responder
• Comfortability operating in Splunk or other common SIEM and SOAR solutions
• Technical depth in one or more of the following specialties: application security, cloud security, digital forensics, malware analysis, threat hunting, incident response or some combination thereof
• Familiarity with SQL, relational databases, and data warehousing
• Basic Python (or other scripting language) experience in order to automate tasks within case management and CI/CD environment
• Experience with defining, collecting, and analyzing various metrics that exhibit the purpose and success of a maturing Detection Engineering program (i.e. MITRE ATT&CK coverage)
• Demonstrated knowledge of threat actor techniques, vulnerabilities, and exploits, and how those present themselves within logs and various endpoint/network artifacts
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy
• Excellent analytical skills
• Collaborative team worker – both in person and virtually using WebEx or similar
• Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to work as liaison between business and information security / information technology
• Flexibility to accommodate working across different time zones
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English
• Business outcomes mindset
• Solid balance of strategic thinking with detail orientation
• Self-starter, ability to take initiative
• Project management and organizational skills with attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Ideate, design, develop, test, monitor, and tune high-quality detections to ensure security analysts have the ability to respond to security threats
• Write complete and well-documented alerting and detection strategies to ensure the security analysts and incident responders have the necessary context and runbooks to respond to detections
• Build, maintain, and improve custom detection and alerting solutions, or work with existing commercial tools to ensure they are tuned properly to meet detection coverage needs
• Act as a subject matter expert for security-relevant logs and data to assist Incident Response team during high-priority investigations
• Collaborate with Threat Intelligence team to ensure detections have a meaningful impact on improving security posture

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant industry certifications
• Experience working with and creating detections as Sigma rules
• Formal software engineering, DevOps, or data science experience from prior jobs, trainings, or academia
• Hands-on experience building tools and solutions within a public cloud environment, preferably AWS
• Splunk engineering/administration experience
• Experience with PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, and other compliance frameworks and their associated logging and detection requirements