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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled security engineer to enhance their SIEM capabilities. This role involves planning, designing, and building SIEM detections while leveraging Python scripting and SOAR tools. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the current threat landscape and be adept at threat hunting and automation. You will work closely with senior management to develop a multi-year security roadmap and provide guidance to junior engineers. If you are passionate about cybersecurity and eager to grow your skillset, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

  • Experience with SIEM platforms and Python scripting.
  • Strong understanding of the threat landscape and data ingest.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for planning, design, and build of SIEM detections.
  • Authoring, tuning, and deploying SIEM detections and threat hunting.

Skills

SIEM platforms (Splunk, Azure Sentinel, Qradar, Exabeam)
Python scripting
MITRE Caldera and ATT&CK
Atomic Red Team
SOAR automation and enrichment
Strong work ethic
Bias for action
Willingness to grow skillset

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Role Responsibilities

Responsible for the planning, design, and build of SIEM detections; automation and SOC workflow enrichments. Strong understanding of the current threat landscape, data ingest, and telemetry requirements.

  • Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Azure Sentinel, Qradar, Exabeam, etc.
  • Python scripting
  • MITRE Caldera and ATT&CK
  • Atomic Red Team
  • SOAR automation and enrichment
  • Strong work ethic and positive can-do attitude
  • Bias for action and task execution
  • Willingness to grow skillset

This role requires UK national security clearance.

Additional Responsibilities

Authoring, tuning, and deploying SIEM detections, threat hunting, and automation via Python scripting and SOAR tools.

May participate in an incident management team, responding to security events in line with Oracle incident response playbooks. Investigates purported intrusions and breaches, oversees root cause analysis, and coordinates incidents with other business units. May act as incident commander for serious incidents. Develops new methods and playbooks throughout Oracle.

Evaluates existing and proposed technical architectures for security risk, provides technical advice for designing and developing secure architectures, and recommends security controls to mitigate risks. This includes design assessments, risk assessments, and threat modeling.

Brings advanced skills to research, evaluate, track, and manage security threats and vulnerabilities, especially in ambiguous situations requiring in-depth analysis and scripting knowledge.
Works with senior management to develop and implement a multi-year security roadmap. Focuses on operational and strategic tasks, providing guidance to junior security operations engineers.

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