Sr Cybersecurity Engineer - Detection Engineering

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The Detection Engineering Sr. Engineer is responsible for continually improving T-Mobile’s security detection capabilities while ensuring suspicious/malicious activity is identified quickly and accurately (protecting T-Mobile customers and employees). They will work with all teams within security operations to ensure that T-Mobile is protecting its customers and employees. They will work with multiple technologies and data sets to build security detection frameworks. (i.e. SIEM, EDR, Network Monitoring, etc.). The best candidate for the role should have a strong comprehension of detection techniques, tactics, and procedures while understanding the needs of an incident response team. This individual must be driven, work well with other people and have strong verbal and written communication skills

Job Responsibilities

• Play a vital role in designing and building a comprehensive threat detection program
• Work with partners throughout security and engineering to develop and improve threat detection logic, enhance response capabilities, and deploy new tools
• Identify active threats to T-Mobile system environments including T-Mobile.com, corporate networks, third party services, and individual user endpoints Threat Modeling / Hunting
• Inform log ingestion requirements for threat detection use case development
• Research of new attack techniques in order to improve detection logic.
• Creating custom logic, detection rules, and alerts to identify suspicious patterns and activity.
• Security Detection Lifecycle Management (Maintain, tune, deprecate, etc.)
• Develop content to improve detective capabilities in Security tooling (SIEM, EDR, etc.)
• Work with IR teams to respond to security incidents promptly
• A champion for process, recommending tool, software development, or infrastructure changes to improve or enhance security
• Lead small to medium sized projects as advised (taking ownership while developing/driving a solution to its full value/completion)
• Develop and deliver metrics
• Participate in Cyber Incident Response Team rotation that may involve non-traditional working hours

Education

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent experience

Work Experience

• 4+ years’ Experience in cybersecurity related field
• 3+ years of supporting/driving security related projects/tasks (taking ownership while driving a solution to its full value/completion)
• Authority (SME) in multiple security domains
• Experience with incident handling (investigating/supporting/assisting/etc)
• Experience Threat Modeling
• Experience with high level design architecture, security technologies, Networking, web services and SOA. Understanding of encryption, obfuscation, tokenization technologies

Preferred Experience

• 2+ years of detection engineering experience 
• 5+ years of cyber security operations experience 
• SME level knowledge of a SIEM (Splunk, Azure Sentinel, QRadar, etc) 
• 2+ years of experience w/cloud related technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills 
• Aim to identify known and unknown threats and attacks 
• Programming/Scripting languages such as Python, etc.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of Machine Learning Concepts and Capabilities
• Proficiency in multiple Operating Systems (Ex. Linux, Windows, Mac, etc.)
• Familiarity with regular expressions and data normalization techniques
• Knowledge of Cybersecurity tooling and how it can be used to create insights
• Knowledge of detection methods (ATT&CK).
• Knowledge of Cloud related technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Medium to advance knowledge of Scripting tools (Python/Perl/Shell/HTML/PHP)
• Knowledge of federal & compliance regulations e.g. SOX, PCI & CPNI ()
• Familiarity with load balancers (ex – A10, F5), firewalls (ex – CheckPoint), Venafi, MDM (ex - Mobile Iron), Cloud (ex - AWS, Azure), Malware Protection (ex -FireEye), Advanced Persistent Threats (ex - Damballa), Privileged Accounts (ex – CyberArk), SIEM (ex – ArcSight), Log & Event (ex – Splunk), Intrusion IDS/IPS (ex – Symantec) , Cloud Platform (ex – PCF, Docker), Scanning (ex – Qualys), AppSec (ex - Veracode)
• Strong problem solving / fixing skills
• Self-motivated and able to work under timelines.
• Always act with tact and integrity, and work with a variety of individuals in a positive and productive manner
• Strong verbal and communication skills with diverse multi-functional groups & the ability to present effectively to small & large groups
• Knowledge of information security policies and regulatory controls (per team function)
• Demonstrable knowledge of current technological trends and developments in the area of info security
• Ability to plan, organize and prioritize tasks to complete independently; Ability to work under pressure and meet timelines

Licenses and Certifications

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) CISSP and/or CCSK and/or CCSP and/or CISA/CISM certification a plus (Preferred)
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) (Preferred)
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) (Preferred)
• SANS related Certifications a plus

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel:
Travel Required (Yes/No):Yes

DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No):No
Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No):No
 

Washington Pay Range : $134,400.00 - $181,800.00

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the state listed. The successful candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay may be above or below this range. At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee’s eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance, while Retail and Business Sales roles are eligible for monthly or quarterly sales incentives. And since we are ALL owners, EVERY employee at T-Mobile is eligible for an Annual Stock Grant.

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