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Senior Security Engineer

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Senior Security Engineer in UK new

  • London

Responsibilities

  • Investigate security incidents using digital forensics, data analytics, coding, and threat investigation skills.
  • Build automation, detection models, and response capabilities to identify anomalous activity and mitigate threats at scale.
  • Conduct proactive threat hunting across corporate and production environments.
  • Partner with engineering teams to build advanced detection solutions and improve system and information security.
  • Identify infrastructure visibility gaps and improve logging and detection with business partners.
  • Collaborate with Legal, Privacy, Engineering, and other cross-functional teams during complex investigations and large-scale response.
  • Define and execute threat detection and incident response capabilities and processes while mentoring team members.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in security operations, including investigations, incident response, incident management, digital forensics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and/or detection engineering.
  • Proficiency in Python or another scripting language, with experience using SQL and Pandas.
  • Experience automating security detection and response.
  • Knowledge of the Cyber Kill Chain Framework and MITRE ATT&CK Framework and their application to the threat landscape.
  • Ability to lead people through complex and ambiguous situations using influence rather than authority.
  • Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in high-stress situations, along with strong organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills.
  • Familiarity with Elasticsearch is preferred.
  • Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, and RDS is preferred.

Benefits

  • The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

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