Sr Security Engineer (Detection Engineering,Splunk)

About the role
 

Gartner information security teams are a group of passionate information security professionals dedicated to Protecting, Detecting, and Responding to threats. Our team consists of lifelong learners who consistently research ways to better defend against and stay ahead of emerging threats. We are a collaborative group where good ideas are welcomed from both experienced and new team members.
 

We are seeking a well-rounded and motivated Security Engineer to join our Security Operations team. The ideal candidate will have experience developing and maintaining security detections, building automation workflows, and possess incident response or security analyst knowledge.
 

What you will do

• Develop innovative and cutting-edge detection content aligned with ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, and various other cyber security frameworks
• Maintain, tune and update an extensive library of detections.
• Build and implement tools to automate security monitoring and tasks.
• Create and support response playbooks and reporting metrics.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to improve detections and automation
• Contribute ideas and solutions to a fast-paced, growing, and evolving team centered around operational excellence
• Contribute to the maturity of the Security Operations team.
• Assist with investigations of security events and incidents
   

What you will need
 

Ideal candidates have 2-4 years of security experience and the ability to engineer detection content with a security mindset. Strong problem-solving skills and the capacity to consistently evaluate and reprioritize based on the current operational picture are essential.
 

Must have

• 2-4 years of information security / cybersecurity experience
• 1.5+ years using Splunk for detection content creation
• 9+ months of scripting or software development experience, preferably with automation (Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash)
• Ability to integrate systems using REST APIs
• Knowledge of cloud security across multiple popular cloud providers

Nice to Have

• Ability to automate tasks and code solutions to repetitive problems
• Experience with SOAR or big data platforms
• Experience using Azure Sentinel
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines.

Who you are

• Excellent communication and prioritization skills.
• Ability to work independently or collaboratively in a fast-paced, time-sensitive operations environment
• Innovation mindset – Takes opportunities to make existing processes more efficient and thinks “automation first”
• Strong desire to improve upon and broaden their skills in information security
   

Don’t meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or other roles.

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