Senior Security Engineer, Insider Threat
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JobgetherSecurity & IT
United StatesContractSenior
Salary130 - 142 USD per hour
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonSQL
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on security operations experience, including detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, or threat intelligence.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience or exposure to data science, security analytics, or analytical approaches for insider threat detection.
- Familiarity with insider threat technologies, particularly Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA).
- Strong understanding of how insider threat programs and incident response teams coordinate during active investigations.
- Knowledge of insider threat challenges within consumer-facing/B2C technology environments.
- Familiarity with the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks and their application to insider threat scenarios.
- Demonstrated experience automating security detection and response workflows.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS is preferred.
- Strong self-direction, organization, prioritization, and investigative judgment.
- Ability to remain composed and effective when handling high-pressure security incidents.
Responsibilities
- Identify security visibility gaps across corporate and production environments and partner with relevant teams to improve logging and detection coverage.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation supporting threat detection and incident response activities.
- Apply coding, data analytics, investigation, and threat-hunting techniques to identify and respond to insider threats.
- Develop scalable detection logic to identify data misuse, abuse, and exfiltration.
- Build automation and detection models that identify anomalous activity and strengthen security response capabilities.
- Proactively hunt for insider threats across corporate and production environments.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement advanced detection solutions.
- Partner with HR and Legal on sensitive and complex insider threat investigations.
- Design and advise on countermeasures that reduce insider threat exposure and mitigate identified risks.
- Contribute subject-matter expertise during insider threat incident response activities.
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