Security Threat Detection Engineer Consultant

• This is a remote position

Responsibilities:
Ideate, design, develop, test, monitor, and tune high-quality detections to ensure security analysts have the ability to respond to security threats
Write complete and well-documented alerting and detection strategies to ensure the security analysts and incident responders have the necessary context and runbooks to respond to detections
Build, maintain, and improve custom detection and alerting solutions, or work with existing commercial tools to ensure they are tuned properly to meet detection coverage needs
Act as a subject matter expert for security-relevant logs and data to assist Incident Response team during high-priority investigations
Collaborate with Threat Intelligence team to ensure detections have a meaningful impact on improving security posture
Required Skills:
5-7 years experience with hands-on experience with full-lifecycle detection engineering in support of a security operations team
Experience as a Security Operations Analyst or Incident Responder
Comfortability operating in Splunk or other common SIEM and SOAR solutions
Technical depth in one or more of the following specialties: application security, cloud security, digital forensics, malware analysis, threat hunting, incident response or some combination thereof?
Familiarity with SQL, relational databases, and data warehousing
Basic Python (or other scripting language) experience in order to automate tasks within case management and CI/CD environment
Experience with defining, collecting, and analyzing various metrics that exhibit the purpose and success of a maturing Detection Engineering program (i.e. MITRE ATT&CK coverage)
Demonstrated knowledge of threat actor techniques, vulnerabilities, and exploits, and how those present themselves within logs and various endpoint/network artifacts
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy
Excellent analytical skills
Collaborative team worker both in person and virtually using WebEx or similar
Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Ability to work as liaison between business and information security / information technology
Flexibility to accommodate working across different time zones
Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English
Business outcomes mindset
Solid balance of strategic thinking with detail orientation
Self-starter, ability to take initiative
Project management and organizational skills with attention to detail
Preferred Skills:
Relevant industry certifications?
Experience working with and creating detections as Sigma rules?
Formal software engineering, DevOps, or data science experience from prior jobs, trainings, or academia?
Hands-on experience building tools and solutions within a public cloud environment, preferably AWS?
Splunk engineering/administration experience?
Experience with PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, and other compliance frameworks and their associated logging and detection requirements?

Required Education:
Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and work experience
Cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CISM, etc.