Detection Engineer - AVP

State Street • Quincy, MA

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About The Position

Global Cybersecurity (GCS) protects State Street and its clients from the impact of cyber-attacks against systems by understanding the risks these attacks present and mitigating them through a robust, continuously evolving, cybersecurity program and control environment. This role is responsible for detecting possible cybersecurity attacks and compromises and sending cogent alerts for analysis by the security operations center. Other responsibility areas are listed below.

Requirements

• Two years of experience in cybersecurity detection engineering gained through a Bachelor’s (BSc) in STEM; or through employment or volunteering.
• Industry recognized cybersecurity certifications with demonstrable, hands-on proficiency.
• Proven capability in analysing high-volume datasets to uncover patterns and actionable insights
• Ability to code detection use cases using SPL or FQL.
• Ability to use Splunk for detection engineering.
• Ability to perform data manipulation, analysis, and reporting using Python, r, or similar analytics language.
• Ability to use Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Knowledge of the cyber global threat landscape; cyber adversaries; cyber tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs); cyber threat intelligence sources and methods; and malware.
• Knowledge of infrastructure and application telemetry.
• Ability to use Jira and Confluence to develop, document, collaborate, and release use cases into production environments.
• Ability to write polished descriptive and persuasive business documents.
• Ability to craft reasoned explanations for decisions that can withstand audit scrutiny.

Nice To Haves

• Ethical hacking, data analytics, military cyber operations, penetration testing, cyber defense, and cyber transformation program management.
• Broad knowledge of cyber security software, business processes, organizational structure, and challenges.
• Software development and scripting experience using RegEx, PERL, Python, or Powershell.
• Ability to create polished presentations in PowerPoint, PowerBI, or other data visualization tools.
• Experience at a large, multi-national financial services firm.
• Experience at a large, multi-national technology consulting firm.

Responsibilities

• Draft and deliver detection use cases in Falcon Query Language (FQL) and other security query languages.
• Draft and deliver Jira and Confluence pages about detection use cases following prescribed business processes.
• Investigate threat reports and request for detections to determine if a new detection use case is warranted.
• Present production ready use cases to executive governing boards for review and approval.
• Write detection oriented business cases, project plans, and reasoned explanations for decisions made about detections to support the execution of detection engineering projects.
• Partners with technical and non-technical professionals to enhance detection functions, and to drive better protection and response.

Benefits

• Our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
• Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
• Paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program
• Incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
• Eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
• Inclusive development opportunities
• Flexible work-life support
• Paid volunteer days
• Vibrant employee networks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level