Detection Engineer Director

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Cyber, Data, Risk and Resilience:
The Cyber, Data, Risk and Resilience (CDRR) division provides first-line defenses for information and cyber security, fraud, resilience, response and recovery, and technology risk and controls. The organization also includes Morgan Stanley's Firmwide Data Office, International Technology offices, and the Non-Financial Risk Technology organization.

Threat Hunt and Cyber Detection:
Threat Hunt and Cyber Detection (THCD) is looking for a talented individual to join our global team. The THCD mission is to seek out attacks against the Morgan Stanley network, to engineer detection strategies, and to reduce risk to Morgan Stanley assets. As a new Threat Hunt team member, you will be tasked developing and maintaining detections, triage cases and alerts and enhance our bespoke tools used to defend Morgan Stanley Network

This is a Detection Engineering position at Director level, which is part of the job family responsible for providing specialist cyber expertise and creating solutions that protect the organization's systems and networks against actual and potential security threats and vulnerabilities.

What you'll do in the role:

·        Contribute expertise in the following areas: threat hunting, red/blue team engagements, threat intelligence, data analysis, risk management, governance to a global team.

·        Evaluate threats and countermeasures along with architecture to understand impact to enhance the overall security posture of the Firm.

·        Leverage various technologies in a very high paced team including: Sigma, Yara, ElasticSearch, Git and Python.

·        Contribute to daily monitoring of critical vulnerabilities, cyber events impacting critical third-parties/vendors, and notable cyber activity/campaigns that may impact the Firm.
Help maintain and enhance our bespoke tooling, seeing your ideas implemented at the forefront of our hunting efforts.

What you'll bring to the role:

·        2 – 4 years of experience directly in Cybersecurity related fields (Hunt, Intelligence, Detection Engineering, Blue Teaming, Pen testing, Incident Response, SOC Operations, Cyber Risk) or relevant educational experience

·        Ability to work with customers, gather requirements and distil them into complete solutions.
Detailed understanding of security architecture principals and best practices.

·        Good ability to code in python, a working knowledge of other programming languages is a welcome bonus

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).

Salary range for the position: $100,000 - $140,000 Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit’s incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.