Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ektello is focused on building a robust Threat Detection and Response team. The Senior Security Engineer will define and execute strategies for threat detection and incident response while mentoring team members and collaborating with various departments to enhance security capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Act as a key member of our growing Threat Detection & Response (TDR) team
- Define and execute novel approaches to detecting, containing, and mitigating threats and incidents
- Partner with cross-functional teams across the organization to improve overall security driven by learnings and root-cause analysis of investigations, resulting in the removal of entire classes of problems
- Perform deep investigations of security incidents using your knowledge of digital forensics and data analytics
- Proactively hunt for threats in our corporate and production environments to identify anomalous activity, using your coding and analysis skills to respond at scale
- Build advanced automation and detection models to support the identification of anomalous activity and streamline response mitigation
- Work side-by-side with our engineering teams to build advanced detection solutions to help keep systems and information safe
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams such as Legal, Privacy, and Engineering for efficient, large-scale incident response
- Identify gaps in our infrastructure and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection
Skills
- 7+ years of hands-on, in-depth knowledge and 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
- Solid knowledge and familiarity with the Cyber Kill Chain Framework and the MITRE ATT&CK Framework, and how these apply to the modern threat landscape
- Self-motivated, creative problem-solver able to work independently with minimal guidance
- Ability to lead people in complex, ambiguous situations through influence rather than authority
- Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in critical, high-stress situations with expediency
- Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch
- Experience in AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS)
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