Senior Security Engineer, Threat Detection & Response
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Maleda TechInformation Security
Remote (within the US)ContractSenior
Salary130 - 142 USD per hour
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonSQLElasticSearchPandas
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in security operations
- Experience in investigations, incident response, incident management, digital forensics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and/or detection engineering
- Proficiency in Python or another scripting language
- Experience automating security detection and response workflows
- Familiarity with the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks
- Ability to lead through influence in complex, ambiguous situations
- Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in high-stress, high-stakes situations
- Strong organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills
- Self-motivated, creative problem-solver comfortable working independently
- SQL and Pandas experience (plus)
- Elasticsearch familiarity (preferred)
- AWS services experience (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) (preferred)
Responsibilities
- Perform investigations of security incidents using digital forensics and data analytics
- Apply coding, data analytics, and investigative skills to hunt, detect, and respond to threats
- Build automation and detection models to identify anomalous activity and support response efforts at scale
- Proactively hunt for threats across corporate and production environments
- Collaborate with engineering teams to build advanced detection solutions
- Partner with Legal, Privacy, and other cross-functional teams on complex investigations
- Identify visibility gaps across the environment and partner with business teams to close them through improved logging and detection
- Partner cross-functionally to drive efficient, large-scale incident response
- Contribute to root cause analysis that eliminates entire classes of security problems
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