Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ektello is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join their Threat Detection and Response team. The role focuses on automating security detection, responding to security incidents, and shaping a foundational security program for insider threat detection.
Responsibilities
- Build automation, detection rules, and behavioral models to identify anomalous activity, data abuse, and data exfiltration at scale
- Use coding, data analytics, and forensic skills to proactively hunt for insider threats across corporate and production environments
- Identify logging gaps across systems and work with internal business partners to increase visibility
- Partner closely with HR, Legal, and broader engineering teams to conduct complex investigations, design countermeasures, and develop targeted Security Awareness training
- Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation coverage to manage threat detection, incident response, and insider threat mitigation
Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on technical experience in security operations—including detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, or threat intelligence
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Cybersecurity, InfoSec) or equivalent practical experience
- Solid understanding of Insider Threat technologies (Data Loss Prevention, UEBA) and B2C operational security challenges
- Familiarity with the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks, specifically applied to the insider threat landscape
- Experience automating security detection and response workflows
- Proficiency in core tooling languages/platforms such as Python, SQL, and AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS)
- Exposure to data science and analytics solutions relevant to user behavior detection
- Ability to remain calm and decisive under pressure during critical incidents; strong self-motivation, problem-solving, and multitasking abilities
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