Senior Threat Detection Engineer

Job Description

The Senior Threat Detection Engineer is part of Threat Detection Engineering team in the Experian Global Security Office. You will be an engineering resource responsible for the innovation and development of SIEM & UEBA systems. Your focus will be directed to understanding multiple vendor feeds and developing the capability of our analytics tools to detect anomalous, suspicious, or malicious behaviours. You will have information security experience in incident response and able to apply that knowledge to guide future content to reduce risk.

This is a remote UK based position reporting to the SIEM/UEBA Security Content Lead.

What you'll do

• Understand data feeds of multiple security tools and logs that feed the SIEM & UEBA technologies, you will identify the capabilities and quality of these feeds and recommend improvements.
• Create new content use cases based on threat intelligence, analyst feedback, available log data, previous incidents.
• Perform daily activities of the content life cycle, including creating new use cases, testing content; tune, and remove content; and maintain associated documentation.
• Work with the other security functions and product SMEs to identify gaps within existing functions.
• Develop parsers/field extractions to facilitate reliable content development
• Develop custom scripts to enhance default SIEM functionality
• Participate in root cause analysis on security incidents and provide recommendations for containment and remediation
• Be a liaison to departments to fulfill audit, regulatory compliance or corporate security policy requirements.
• Create novel analytic methods and techniques for incident detection
• Ensure documentation for content is available on team wiki- specifically including content roadmap and documentation on current content

Qualifications

• Experience with SIEM content development (LogRhythm, Splunk, QRadar, McAfee ESM, or similar SIEM platform)
• Relevant qualifications i.e. SANS, CISP, CISM
• Understanding of log formats and source data for SIEM Analysis
• Solid background with Windows and Linux platforms (security or system administration)
• Incident handling/incident response/security analytics skills
• Understanding of technical concepts including networking and different cyber attacks
• Solid comprehension of multiple security controls, capabilities and use in a corporate environment
• Demonstrated history of innovation
• Knowledge of programming/scripting fundamentals