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As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer on the Threat Detection and Response team, your role will include the continuous development and build-out of our security detection and alerting capabilities
Responsibilities:
As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer on the Threat Detection and Response team, your role will include the continuous development and build-out of security detection and alerting capabilities.
Your primary responsibility will include ongoing development and maintenance of SIEM content to detect and alert on potential security incidents.
Secondary responsibilities include:
Assist with enhancements to our threat detection platform including:

• Security Incident and Event Management(SIEM)
• Security Automation and Response(SOAR)
• Support of Insider Threat & Incident Response Function

Creation of correlation rules and/or logic to detect malicious activity
Developing and maintaining documentation related to detection and alerting procedures for security events
Desirable Skills:

• Hands-on experience:
  • Writing advanced Splunk SPL queries, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Using regular expressions to define filters and pattern matches.

• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework, understanding various techniques & tactics used by threat actors, and how those activities are detected
• SOC / Incident Response investigative skills, such as digital forensics, memory analysis, malware reverse engineering or threat hunting.
• Experience integrating various security tools and log output used to detect malicious behavior
• Experience in scripted IT operations by way of Systems Administration, Software Development,

DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.

• Strong problem solving, ability to analyze, design, develop, deploy, and support solutions

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience

This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Required Certifications:
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