Senior Detection Engineer

Our Global Detection Engineering Team provides detection capabilities for various security products used in our 24/7 managed monitoring service with customers all over the world. This role will be to join our detection engineering team, where you will focus on one of our detection capabilities.

The opportunity

You will use our latest Threat Intelligence and your own creativity to write and maintain detection logic for our customers. Proving that the detection works is paramount, so you will test the new and existing detection set extensively against known attacks. Previous experience with detection engineering is not a hard prerequisite. We're looking for a wide range of backgrounds for potential candidates, the exact responsibilities of any candidate can be tailored given their experience and skillset. Any candidate that only partially matches the skillset is encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Develop new detection logic to contribute to Detection Engineering content repository.
• Write and maintain detection tests cases.
• Review findings of TI, CERT, and Red Team activities and evaluate from a detection engineering improvement perspective.
• Providing guidance and support to the rest of Fox-IT and NCC Group regarding detection development, and the continuous improvement of the MDR (Managed Detection and Response) landscape in terms of detection engineering

Desired Requirements

• A security mindset and demonstrable experience or knowledge of the contemporary attack tactics and techniques.
• Strong knowledge of the latest threats in security or is eager to build this knowledge,
• Experience with simulating attacks. Certificates such as CEH and OSCP are not required but are a plus.
• Experience with Endpoint or Network monitoring.
• Experience with SIEM tools, preferably Splunk and/or Microsoft Sentinel.
• Experience with Scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, Bash
• Experience with version control (Git, Azure Dev Ops, etc.)

And has knowledge of one or more of the below:

• Azure or other cloud technologies,
• Windows Active Directory,
• Windows Operating System fundamentals,
• Networking fundamentals.