Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cypress HCM is hiring a senior security engineer for its Threat Detection and Response team, which automates security detection and responds to internal and external threats. The role will define and execute threat detection and incident response capabilities, investigate and mitigate incidents, build detection automation, hunt for threats, and mentor team members while collaborating with cross-functional partners.
Responsibilities
- Perform investigations of security incidents using your knowledge of digital forensics and data analytics
- Use your coding, data analytics and investigation skills to hunt, detect and respond to threats
- Build automation and detection models to support identification of anomalous activity and response activities to mitigate threats at scale
- Hunt for threats in our corporate and production environments to proactively identify anomalous activity
- Work side by side with our engineering teams to build advanced detection solutions to help keep systems and information safe, and partner closely with partner teams to carry out complex investigations
- Identify gaps in our infrastructure, and work with business partners to gain visibility through logging and detection
- Collaborate well with cross-functional partner teams, such as Legal, Privacy, and Engineering for efficient, large-scale response
Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on in-depth knowledge and technical experience in security operations including detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and/or detection engineering
- Proficiency in Python or other scripting language. We also use SQL and Pandas frequently
- Self-motivated and creative problem-solver able to work independently with minimal guidance
- Ability to lead people in complex, ambiguous situations through influence and not authority
- Ability to work calmly and collaboratively in critical high-stress situations with expediency
- Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills
- Knowledge and familiarity of the Cyber Kill Chain Framework and MITRE ATT&CK Framework and how these apply to the threat landscape
- Experience automating security detection and response
- We are not focused on specific tools but we often use Python, AWS, SQL, and more
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch is preferred
- Experience in AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS) preferred
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