Senior Security Engineer, Threat Detection – Response

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Conduct investigations into security incidents utilizing digital forensics and data analysis.

• Leverage coding, data analytics, and investigative expertise to seek out, detect, and address threats.

• Develop automation and detection models to recognize unusual activities and enhance response operations at scale.

• Proactively identify anomalous activities by hunting for threats in both corporate and production environments.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to create sophisticated detection solutions that safeguard systems and information.

• Partner with teams to carry out intricate investigations.

• Recognize infrastructure deficiencies and collaborate with business partners to enhance visibility through logging and detection.

• Work alongside Legal, Privacy, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams to ensure efficient, large-scale responses.

• Assist in defining and implementing threat detection and incident response capabilities and processes.

• Provide mentorship to fellow team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on, in-depth experience in security operations, encompassing investigations, incident response, incident management, digital forensics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and/or detection engineering.

• Proficient in Python or an alternative scripting language.

• Regular use of SQL and Pandas.

• Familiarity with Elasticsearch is preferred.

• Self-motivated and innovative problem-solver capable of working independently with minimal supervision.

• Ability to guide individuals in complex and ambiguous situations through influence rather than authority.

• Capacity to remain calm and collaborative in critical, high-stress scenarios with a sense of urgency.

• Excellent organizational, prioritization, and multitasking abilities.

• Understanding of the Cyber Kill Chain Framework and the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and their relevance to the threat landscape.

• Experience in automating security detection and response processes.

• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS is preferred.

• Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Equity participation eligibility.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Employee travel credits.

• Reasonable accommodations available throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.