Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience in a detection engineering, SOAR automation, or related role.
- 3 years of experience working with SOC/Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) or other incident response related teams.
- Experience with detection tuning and creation leveraging various security tools (e.g., SIEM, EDR, or NDR tools).
- Experience of scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell and Python).
Preferred qualifications:
- One or more of the following certifications or similar: CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+; CISCO (CCNA); ISC2 (CISSP); SANS (GSEC, GCIH, GCED, GCFA, GCIA, GNFA, GPEN).
- Experience with SPL, KQL, YARA-L or similar SIEM query languages, with an understanding of SIEM log flow, aggregation, and forwarding.
- Experience managing and maintaining SOAR platforms and its dependencies, and working with/integrating APIs into automation playbooks.
- Experience with content engineering inside SIEM platforms (e.g., rule creation, advanced correlation searching, etc.).
- Understanding of logging for common platforms and devices, including Linux and network equipment.
- Ability to engage and collaborate with client stakeholders and other groups within the customer environment to drive resolution for security issues.
About the job
In this role, you will be responsible for enabling the technology and tools required to accomplish daily tasks within a Cyber Defense Center (CDC). You will collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams such as Security Architects, Security Analysts, Client Information Technology (IT) resources, and other business resource owners, to define requirements and deliver recommendations focused on technologies required to support the client's CDC. In addition, you will be responsible for maintaining the operational readiness of client Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and SOAR, creating detection content, automation playbooks, managing integrations, identifying areas for improvement, and setting appropriate configurations of the SIEM/Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) or related response technologies required for a client's security operations center (SOC) to maintain effective incident detection and response capabilities.
In this role, you will work as a member of a highly technical team in a rapidly changing environment, administer a variety of information security technologies, learn new emerging technologies, and be passionate about protecting customer data and corporate assets from the various threats facing multiple industries.Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. Mandiant's cybersecurity expertise has earned the trust of security professionals and company executives around the world. Our unique combination of renowned frontline experience responding to some of the most complex breaches, nation-state grade threat intelligence, machine intelligence, and the industry's best security validation ensures that Mandiant knows more about today's advanced threats than anyone.Responsibilities
- Identify issues in customer Cyber Defense Centers and formulate strategies for improvement, plan implementation of improvements, and execute/oversee plans to completion.
- Create and modify SIEM use cases and detection logic, leveraging cyber threat intelligence, written in technology-specific query language or Sigma open signature format.
- Provide expertise for SIEM, SOAR, and other SOC technologies that assist in incident response, create and modify SOAR playbooks written in Python.
- Measure and improve alert fidelity through metrics creation, tracking, responding to tuning requests, implementing incident-specific detection logic, etc.
- Engage and collaborate with client stakeholders and other groups within customer environment to drive resolution for security issues.
