Senior Detection Engineer

HumanaTampa, FL
Remote

About The Position

The Senior Detection Engineer position is a technical subject matter expert for the Humana detection engineering team. You will work closely with EIP's Threat Management and Response teams as well as other Information Security and IT teams. You will report to the Associate Director, SIEM Engineering. As a Senior Detection Engineer, you will be responsible for technical execution and delivery of Detection Engineering capabilities. This is an exciting opportunity to join an engineering focused security team that leverages automation and AI/ML capabilities with a cutting-edge detection-as-code CI/CD pipeline. This role has responsibility for delivering and curating custom threat detection content in Splunk, partnering closely with EIP groups such as Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC), Threat Hunting, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and IT teams such as Enterprise Observability to deliver threat detection services. This role will also lead and participate in defensive security projects and initiatives to defend Humana and its members against the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology or a related field is preferred.
  • Minimum of 4 years' experience with threat hunting, threat research, threat intelligence or incident response.
  • Expert level understanding of the threat landscape in adversary tools such as command-and-control (C2) frameworks, remote management and access tools (RMMs), credential theft utilities, proxy and tunneling tools, cloud attack tooling, data exfiltration utilities, malware loaders, ransomware, and post-exploitation frameworks, as well as the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with their use.
  • Experience with SIEM technologies such as Splunk (preferred), Microsoft Sentinel, Google Chronicle, Elastic Stack, Rapid7, CrowdStrike NG-SIEM, Exabeam, Cortex, LogRhythm, IBM QRadar.
  • Deep understanding of how complex, multi-stage malware functions.
  • Advanced knowledge of security endpoint detection and response, network forensics and malware analysis across systems whether on premise or in varied cloud environments consisting of physical or virtual workloads.
  • Extensive experience creating and maintaining custom threat detection rules, leveraging enrichment data from threat intel and attack surface services.
  • Strong familiarity of MITRE ATT&CK or similar frameworks.
  • Experience working under and providing support for regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, PCI, SOC2, etc.

Nice To Haves

  • Professional certification in a relevant cybersecurity field (i.e., OSCP, GCTI, GREM, etc)

Responsibilities

  • Develop custom tools and leverage automation and orchestration for threat detections, malware research and threat intelligence needs.
  • Creation and maintenance of policy, standards, procedures, and documentation
  • Use KPIs and other metrics to identify opportunities for process improvements.
  • Deliver and curate custom threat detection content in Splunk.
  • Partner closely with EIP groups such as Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC), Threat Hunting, Cyber Threat Intelligence, and IT teams such as Enterprise Observability to deliver threat detection services.
  • Lead and participate in defensive security projects and initiatives to defend Humana and its members against the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape.

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision benefits
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave)
  • short-term and long-term disability
  • life insurance
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