Gray Tier Technologies is seeking a Threat Detection Engineer for a new customer on a highly-visible and strategic Cybersecurity Task Order. The Threat Detection Engineer will:
- Capture use cases from subscribers or other team members and develop correlation rules
- Utilize knowledge of latest threats and attack vectors to develop Splunk correlation rules for continuous monitoring
- Develop, manage, and maintain Splunk data models
- Review logs to determine if relevant data is present to accelerate against data models to work with existing use cases
- Develop custom regex to create custom knowledge objects
- Developing custom SPL using macros, lookups, etc., and network security signatures such as SNORT and YARA
- Develop custom dashboards and reports for customer stakeholders
Train and mentor junior staff
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field PLUS at least eight (8) years of experience in incident detection and response, malware analysis, or cyber forensics
- Extensive experience working with various security methodologies and processes
- Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP protocols, experience configuring and implementing various technical security solutions, extensive experience providing analysis and trending of security log data from a large number of heterogeneous security devices
- Expert knowledge in two or more of the following areas related to cybersecurity:
Vulnerability Assessment, Intrusion Prevention and Detection, Access Control and Authorization, Policy Enforcement, Application Security, Protocol Analysis, Firewall Management, Incident Response, Web-filtering, Advanced Threat Protection - Experience developing advanced correlation rules utilizing Stats and data models for cyber threat detection
- Experienced with creating and maintaining Splunk knowledge objects
- Experienced managing and maintaining Splunk data models
- Experience creating regex for pattern matching
- Experience implementing security methodologies and SOC processes
Preferred Qualifications:
- Top Secret clearance
- Experience with cloud (e.g. o365, Azure, AWS, etc) security monitoring and familiar with cloud threat landscape
- Completed Splunk Advance Searching and Reporting training
- Experience developing custom scripts using python
- Splunk certifications
Top Skills
What We Do
Gray Tier Technolgies is a privately held company providing full cyclic cybersecurity services and products. Gray Tier is headquartered in Alexandria, VA with offices in Orlando, FL and Denver Co. Our vision is to be the premier security services and solutions provider for our Enterprise, Government, and military customers. To prepare our customers to defend their systems against global cyber threats. By leveraging our many years of defending mission-critical systems for the US military we are here to help you safeguard your corporate data from attackers. Gray Tier’s experts use techniques and tactics from world-wide cyber threats to provide a realistic evaluation of your network defenses against today’s adversaries.
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