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Job Description

As a Site Reliability Engineering Manager, you will lead a global team of talented SREs in the development, deployment, and continuous improvement of our Cyber Threat Detection Pipeline. Your leadership will ensure the delivery of a scalable, efficient, and highly reliable Threat Detection Engineering platform. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Leverage cutting-edge technologies such as Splunk Enterprise Security, Exabeam Advanced Analytics (UEBA), Security Data Lakes (e.g., Data Bricks or Snowflake), and Cribl for log ingestion. Drive the adoption and implementation of Detection as Code principles.
• Leveraging CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment and management of detection rules and platform configurations, ensuring fast, reliable, and consistent updates across our environment. 
• Implement and maintain the platform's configuration via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Ansible and Terraform, ensuring that our security infrastructure is scalable, reproducible, and manageable through code. 
• Manage the full lifecycle of security tools and platforms, including evaluation, selection, implementation, and optimization. 
• Develop and manage the security engineering data storage and compute budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources through management of the data lifecycle.

Qualifications

This role requires a great deal of SRE technical and managerial skills in a large enterprise environment, such as: 

• A great background in the SRE field supporting a Cyber Threat Detection function, with demonstrable experience in a leadership or managerial role overseeing a team. 
• Scripting and Automation Proficiency: Demonstrated expertise in scripting and automation with a strong proficiency in either Python or Golang, enabling the development of efficient, scalable security solutions. 
• Network Forensics and Event Management: Proficiency in network forensics, including logging and event management, with a focus on identifying, analyzing, and mitigating network-based threats. 
• Strong understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK™ framework, cyber threat landscapes, attack vectors, and threat actors, enabling informed decision-making and strategy development. 
• Relevant Security Certifications: Possession of relevant security certifications, such as CISSP, GCIH, GCIA, or similar, is highly desirable, demonstrating a commitment to professional development and expertise in the field. 

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