Senior Threat Detection Engineer

Huntington National Bank; Minnetonka (MN); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance coverage

Wellness program

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid leave programs

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Huntington National Bank is seeking a Threat Detection Analyst Expert to lead design, deployment, and tuning of detections across SIEM, XDR, EDR, cloud, and network platforms. You will collaborate with Incident Response, Cybersecurity Operations, Threat Intelligence, Security Engineering, and IT Operations to improve visibility and reduce gaps.

The role emphasizes development of high-fidelity detections, validation through simulations, and ongoing improvement of detection content.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or 8+ years of equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Cybersecurity.
• 1+ years data analytics experience within the threat detection space.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, mentorship, and training opportunities for junior Threat Detection Analysts.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain threat detections across SIEM, XDR, EDR, cloud, and network security platforms.
• Conduct detection engineering activities aligned to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and known adversary behaviors.
• Analyze threat intelligence, attack techniques, and emerging threats to identify new detection opportunities.
• Develop and maintain detection use cases, analytics, correlation rules, anomaly detections, and behavioral detections.
• Perform detection validation through threat simulations, purple team exercises, adversary emulation, and attack replay testing.

Skills

Threat detection

Threat analytics

Detection engineering

MITRE ATT&CK

Security telemetry

Threat hunting

Communication

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree or 4+ years experience

Tools

Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

Microsoft Defender XDR

KQL

SPL

XQL

SQL

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

Huntington National Bank is seeking a Threat Detection Analyst Expert to lead design, deployment, and tuning of detections across SIEM, XDR, EDR, cloud, and network platforms. You will collaborate with Incident Response, Cybersecurity Operations, Threat Intelligence, Security Engineering, and IT Operations to improve visibility and reduce gaps.

The role emphasizes development of high-fidelity detections, validation through simulations, and ongoing improvement of detection content.