Security Engineer - Detections L2

Job Description

Description

Brief

We are looking at passionate threat detection engineers who like to fight bad-guys by helping organizations detect attackers within the shortest MTD possible. You will be part of the Securonix Threat Labs team that is responsible for building the security analytics content, anomaly and threat detection models for the Securonix Snypr Next Generation SIEM platform and responding and providing awareness of advanced cyber and insider threats to our community. Our team's mission is to continuously develop detection methods to address the constantly-shifting threat landscape and detect the latest real-world cyberattacks.

What your role entails

• Responsible for maintaining existing policies and threat-models in the Snypr platform

• Ensure detection content is sufficiently tested and validated before pushing to production

• Develop detection content in timely manner while ensuring quality

• Keep yourself updated on latest threats and community published research, tools for improving threat detection

• Submit clear documentation around the detection content developed

• Engage with customers for custom threat detection development requirement

• Provide L2 support for issues in customer environment associated to detection content

• Identify and document RCA for issues and share details back with team

• Perform fine-tuning exercises in customer environments

• Submit bugs , features or improvements to improve quality of detections and capability of platform

• Perform QA on content developed by other team members

• Provide on-call support during weekdays and weekends

What skills you posses

• At-least 4 year of prior experience in building threat detection content for SIEM platforms like ArcSight, QRadar, Splunk, Logrhythm, etc.

• Strong fundamentals in network and operating systems concepts

• Experience working with offensive security testing tools

• Ability to analyze security event data and draw conclusions

• Understanding of the different MITRE ATT&CK Matrices

• Experience with the use case creation lifecycle from development , tuning, and updates

• Experience in GIT and SVN based code management

• Ability to automate basic tasks using scripting languages like Python

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Additional skills that would give you an advantage

• Prior investigations and response / SOC experience

• Information security professional certifications (OSCP, CEH, SANS etc.)

• Developer or contributor to open-source attack or defense cyber-security tools

• Experience building playbooks / automated response actions on SOAR

• Microsoft Excel / Google Spreadsheets ninja

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