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Detection Engineer - Threat Hunter

Arlington, VA · On-site

$170K - $190K/yr

We are seeking a highly motivated Detection Engineer / Threat Hunter to proactively identify, detect, and mitigate advanced cyber threats across the enterprise environment. This role combines threat ...

BetterCloud

Cyber Detection Analyst

Manhattan, NY · On-site

Detection Health and Performance team helps customers maintain effective detection as attacker ... Work with R&D, Solution Engineers, and TAM teams to resolve complex customer and product issues.

HUMAN GROUP

Cyber Detection Analyst

New York, NY · On-site

$70K - $90K/yr

Detection Health and Performance team helps customers maintain effective detection as attacker ... Engineers, Operations, Research and Engineering teams, helping to maintaining strong security ...

BreakPoint Labs LLC

The Detection Engineer collaborates with Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Watch Analysts and other teams to ensure timely and effective threat detection, adhering to CJCSM 6510.01B reporting ...

Instacart

Senior Detection Engineer II

OR · On-site +1

$104K - $143K/yr

Overview Instacarts Detection Engineering team sits at the core of our Security organization ... cyber forensic investigations across a variety of log sources * Optimize log ingestion pipelines ...

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Endpoint Detection Engineer

Atlanta, GA • On-site

State Street Corporation
Finance and Insurance • 10K+ employees
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$120K - $202K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Posted 6 days ago

Job description

Who we are looking for
Global Cybersecurity (GCS) protects State Street and its clients from the impact of cyber-attacks against systems by understanding the risks these attacks present and mitigating them through a robust, continuously evolving, cybersecurity program and control environment.
This role is responsible for detecting possible cybersecurity attacks and compromises and sending cogent alerts for analysis by the security operations center. Other responsibility areas are listed below.
What you will be responsible for
  • Draft and deliver detection use cases in Falcon Query Language (FQL) and other security query languages.
  • Draft and deliver Jira and Confluence pages about detection use cases following prescribed business processes.
  • Investigate threat reports and request for detections to determine if a new detection use case is warranted.
  • Present production ready use cases to executive governing boards for review and approval.
  • Write detection oriented business cases, project plans, and reasoned explanations for decisions made about detections to support the execution of detection engineering projects.
  • Partners with technical and non-technical professionals to enhance detection functions, and to drive better protection and response.

What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role
  • Highly diverse and relevant education and experiences, such as: ethical hacking, data analytics, military cyber operations, penetration testing, cyber defense, and cyber transformation program management.
  • Broad knowledge of cyber security software, business processes, organizational structure, and challenges.
  • Software development and scripting experience using RegEx, PERL, Python, or Powershell.
  • Ability to create polished presentations in PowerPoint, PowerBI, or other data visualization tools.
  • Experience at a large, multi-national financial services firm.
  • Experience at a large, multi-national technology consulting firm.

Education & Preferred Qualifications
  • Two years of experience in cybersecurity detection engineering gained through a Bachelor's (BSc) in STEM; or through employment or volunteering.
  • Industry recognized cybersecurity certifications with demonstrable, hands-on proficiency.
  • Proven capability in analysing high-volume datasets to uncover patterns and actionable insights
  • Ability to code detection use cases using SPL or FQL.
  • Ability to use Splunk for detection engineering.
  • Ability to perform data manipulation, analysis, and reporting using Python, r, or similar analytics language.
  • Ability to use Structured Query Language (SQL).
  • Knowledge of the cyber global threat landscape; cyber adversaries; cyber tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs); cyber threat intelligence sources and methods; and malware.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure and application telemetry.
  • Ability to use Jira and Confluence to develop, document, collaborate, and release use cases into production environments.
  • Ability to write polished descriptive and persuasive business documents.
  • Ability to craft reasoned explanations for decisions that can withstand audit scrutiny.

Salary Range:
$120,000 - $202,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
For a full overview, visit https://hrportal.ehr.com/statestreet/Home.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you'll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we're making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we've been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

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Finance and insurance

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Boston, MA, US

Year founded

1792

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