Detection Engineer

AI in this role

Our Global Detection Engineering Team provides detection capabilities for various security products used in our 24/7 managed monitoring service with customers all over the world. This role will be to join our detection engineering team, where you will focus on providing a tailored experience of custom detections to all our customers. All customers have the benefit of access to NCC’s wide library of detections but there are many cases for exceptions and requirements for custom detections. This role sits at the pivotal point between our customers and the detection engineers. Together with (representatives of our) customers you will focus on assessing the gap and need for custom detections (on top of the deployment of detections from NCC’s detection library) to provide the appropriate level of detection each customer desires.

Key Responsibilities

Schedule and host threat workshops utilizing industry-approved methodologies such as DREAD or STRIDE.
Correlate log events in SIEM solutions with activities which have taken place in the (business) application or technology.
Query data ingested into customer SIEM environments to assess the practical feasibility of newly proposed detections.
Prepare pseudo-logic and work packages for detection engineers who write detections-as-code within the NCC detection repository.
Derive new generic detection opportunities from Threat Intelligence reports to further expand NCC’s detection library.
Identify potential abuse patterns in customer applications.
Query large datasets of data in SIEMs (Sentinel & Splunk).
Explain (potential) attack paths to customers.
Write pseudo-logic for the development of new detections.
Track the status of detections under development and share status updates with the customer.
Obtain feedback from customers on exceptions and allowed behavior during the testing phase of the development of new analytics.
Ensure work is up-to-date and tracked in (internal) ticketing system(s).

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Experience in detection engineering on a range of technologies (SIEM and EDR)
OR
Experience in SOC or Managed Detection Services
OR
Experience in Analytically-minded IT Systems administration/Network Administration and looking for a change in career/focus on Security
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to work with client engagement teams and NCC colleagues to continuously improve the service we deliver.
Good understanding of IT Systems and platforms from a security context.

Desired Requirements:

A security mindset and demonstrable experience or knowledge of contemporary attack tactics and techniques.
Forensics or Incident Response competency would be considered valuable.
Strong knowledge of the latest threats in security.
The skills to translate technical attacks to effects in the business (and vice versa).
Experience in simulating attacks is considered an advantageous skill to enhance other skills
Experience with SIEM tools, preferably Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel.

And has knowledge of one or more of the below:

Azure or other cloud technologies,
Windows Active Directory,
Windows Operating System fundamentals,
Networking fundamentals.
System management technologies
Identity and access management procedures and technologies

How we rate this

Detection Engineer at NCC Group rates 35 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.