Our client is a fast pace Silicon Valley-based startup with over $100 million in venture financing and is currently experiencing exceptional growth due to both industry growth and covid19. They are in the business of replacing obsolete equipment with technology that's smart, secure, and easy to manage in the cloud. They are now seeking to hire a Security Detection and Response Engineer to build, operate and improve our client's security cloud base monitoring detection and response infrastructure. This role reports to the CISO.
- Build, operate and improve the Security Monitoring, Detection and Response infrastructure
- Onboard new systems and services to our SIEM
- Tune alerts to maintain high signal
- Automate data enrichment and incident response workflows
- Facilitate incident response processes and tabletop exercises
- Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader security program
- Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally via security conferences and blogs
- Help your peer engineers grow their own security reasoning and knowledge
Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
- Strong experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud service provider
- 5+ years of experience as a security engineer, software engineer, site reliability engineer, or security consultant. Preferably in a security monitoring or incident response role
- Understanding of security weaknesses, exploits, attacks and mitigations
- Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new security products, features, and strategies
- Coding ability. You will sometimes write log queries or implement automation scripts
- Excellent collaborative skills
- Outstanding written and verbal communication
- Experience with most of the following: SIEM, SOAR, AWS security tools (GuardDuty, AWS Config, CloudTrail) Terraform, Kubernetes, Containers, and osquery
Our client is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We and our client do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, and encourage all qualified applicants to apply