[Remote] Cyber Defense Detection Engineer, Mandiant, Google Cloud

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Google is hiring a Cyber Defense Detection Engineer for Mandiant, part of Google Cloud. The role helps clients prepare for, mitigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats by improving security operations, supporting security tool implementation, and guiding incident containment and remediation.

Responsibilities

• Identify issues in customer Cyber Defense Centers and formulate strategies for improvement, plan implementation of improvements, and execute/oversee plans to completion
• Create and modify Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) use cases and detection logic, leveraging cyber threat intelligence, written in technology-specific query language or Sigma open signature format
• Provide expertise for SIEM and other SOC technologies that assist in incident response
• Measure and improve alert fidelity through metrics creation, tracking, responding to tuning requests, implementing incident-specific detection logic, etc
• Engage and collaborate with client stakeholders and other groups within the customer environment to drive resolution for security issues

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• 3 years of experience with detection tuning and creation leveraging various security tools (e.g., SIEM, EDR, or NDR tools)
• Experience with content engineering inside SIEM platforms (e.g., rule creation, advanced correlation searching, etc
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell and Python)
• Experience with SPL, KQL, YARA-L or similar SIEM query languages, with an understanding of SIEM log flow, aggregation, and forwarding
• Ability to engage and collaborate with client stakeholders and other groups within the customer environment to drive resolution for security issues
• Ability to develop executive stakeholder client relationships to achieve project/long-term objectives

Benefits

• 15% bonus target
• Equity

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