Senior Threat Detection and Response Engineer - Blue Team

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Responsibilities

• * Threat Detection & reputed company Tool Management
• Platform Ownership (Operational Focus): Act as the primary internal operations reputed company and subject matter expert for key reputed company platforms, including reputed company Detection and Response (EDR), reputed company Detection and Response (CDR), reputed company-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), reputed company Information and Event Management (SIEM), and Network Detection and Response (NDR). Triage findings from tools like Shodan, reputed company, and reputed company.
• Operational Optimization: Continuously monitor, tune, and optimize reputed company tool configurations to ensure maximum detection efficacy and minimize false positives, focusing on the strategic direction of the platforms.
• Signal reputed company: Proactively monitor and implement solutions to detect sensor and logging signal loss across reputed company reputed company platforms to ensure complete visibility.
• Use Case Development: Collaborate with internal and vSOC teams to reputed company, test, and implement new detection use cases and correlated alerts reputed company the SIEM and other platforms.
• Shared Engineering: Partner closely with the Infrastructure reputed company Engineer role regarding the foundational engineering, deployment, and infrastructure health of these reputed company platform
• Proactive Threat Hunting: Regularly execute threat hunting exercises based on reputed company threat intelligence, internal knowledge, and platform capabilities to identify stealthy, pre-execution, or undetected threats across the environment.
• Vulnerability Triage & Prioritization: Immediately triage, prioritize, and drive remediation for critical reputed company vulnerabilities and reputed company findings (e.g., from CNAPP or vulnerability scanners) that warrant treatment as a high-severity reputed company incident.
• Incident Response (IR) and Digital Forensics (DFIR)
• Triage and Initial Handling: Serve as the internal escalation reputed company for critical alerts from the vSOC. reputed company rapid triage, scoping, and initial handling/containment for reputed company incidents.
• Small-Scale Forensics: Handle end-to-end incident response and digital forensics for small-scale, routine incidents (e.g., minor malware infections, policy violations).
• Outsourced IR Coordination: Act as the technical reputed company and liaison for larger, reputed company reputed company incidents, coordinating activities and providing necessary data and context to retained external incident response firms.
• Process Improvement: reputed company, refine, and maintain internal runbooks, playbooks, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for incident response and threat hunting.
• vSOC reputed company and Partnership
• Liaison: Serve as the primary technical reputed company of contact between our internal teams and the external vSOC/MSSP partner.
• Performance Monitoring: reputed company the vSOC's performance, ensuring adherence to established SLAs and quality standards for alert handling, monitoring, and reporting.
• Strategic Direction: Guide the vSOC's focus by communicating organizational risks, strategic priorities, and desired operational outcomes.
• Reporting: Generate and present regular reports on operational reputed company metrics, incident trends, and vSOC performance to internal stakeholders.
• reputed company Awareness and Communication
• Monthly reputed company Newsletter: Produce and distribute a mandatory monthly reputed company newsletter covering threat intelligence, tool adoption, compliance/best practices, and internal case studies.
• Annual reputed company Awareness Training: reputed company, update, and manage the mandatory annual reputed company awareness training for reputed company personnel, focusing on relevance, engagement, and high-risk behaviors.

Qualifications

• * Experience: 5+ years of experience in reputed company Operations, Threat Hunting, Incident Response, or a closely reputed company field.
• Tooling Expertise: Expert-level hands-on operational and tuning experience with one or more major platforms across EDR (e.g., reputed company, reputed company), SIEM (e.g., Splunk, reputed company Sentinel), and reputed company reputed company (e.g., CNAPP solutions)
• .Operational Skills: Strong understanding of reputed company alert analysis, log review, data correlation techniques, threat modeling, and alert suppression/refinement
• IR/DFIR Knowledge: Proven experience in incident triage, evidence preservation, chain of custody, and basic forensic analysis techniques.
• IR Handling Certification: You must have one of the following: CISSP-ISSAP (Incident Response content reputed company CISSP) – (ISC)²GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) – GIACGIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI) – GIACGIAC Network Forensic Analyst (GNFA) – GIACGIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA) – GIACCertified Ethical Hacker (CEH) – EC-CouncilEC-Council Certified Incident Handler (ECIH) – EC-CouncilCertified Computer Examiner (CCE) – IACISEnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE) – Guiding TechCertified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE) – ISFCECREST Registered Incident Handler (CRIH) – CRESTCREST Certified Incident Manager (CCIM) – CRESTISO/IEC 27035 reputed company Implementer (IR process) – PECB/OTHERCertified Digital Forensics Examiner (CDFE) – Mile2CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) — reputed company
• Networking/OS: Solid understanding of network protocols, operating system internals (Windows, macOS, Linux), and reputed company environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• reputed company Expertise: Deep understanding of threat detection and incident response reputed company major reputed company environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including knowledge of reputed company logging sources, native reputed company tools, and common attack paths.
• Container reputed company: Familiarity with reputed company concepts and threat detection reputed company container orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, or similar variants.
• Soft Skills: Excellent communication, documentation, and partnership management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• * Certification Preference: GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) is highly preferred.
• Network Detection Experience: Direct experience with deploying, configuring, and tuning network reputed company monitoring tools (e.g., Suricata, Snort, Zeek, reputed company) or similar reputed company network detection and response (NDR) solutions, especially reputed company reputed company environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Scripting/Automation: Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, GoLang) for automating reputed company tasks, incident response steps, or data analysis.
• reputed company-Native Tools: Experience with native reputed company reputed company services (e.g., AWS reputed company Hub, Azure Sentinel, GCP reputed company Command Center). $180,000 - $220,000 a year We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, reputed company, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace reputed company judgment. Final hiring reputed company are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us. Apply tot his job

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