Job Description
The Senior Security Engineer - Detection Response at Aurora is responsible for building, maintaining, and improving threat detection controls and security operations, leading investigations of cybersecurity events, and developing detection tools to safeguard the company's enterprise environment across on-premise and cloud systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, test, and maintain threat detection controls for the enterprise
- Lead investigations of cybersecurity events
- Design, implement, and tune detection capabilities to identify malicious activity
- Collaborate with teams to develop custom workflow detection strategies
- Analyze logs and adversarial techniques to enhance detection and risk mitigation
- Develop custom tooling to improve investigation efficiency
- Drive continuous improvement of detection frameworks, playbooks, and automation
- Contribute to security engineering solutions supporting enterprise security initiatives
- Mentor security team members and act as a subject matter expert
- Participate in an on-call rotation for security incident response
Requirements
- Experience deploying and using SIEM tools, data pipelines, and logging ecosystems.
- Experience with Endpoint Security tools like Crowdstrike Falcon and OSQuery.
- Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, and associated technologies such as Git, Terraform, and Puppet.
- Experience securing operating systems including Linux, MacOS, Windows, and Android.
- Experience crafting logic to detect anomalous use, network, host, or cloud activity.
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud security, or cloud networking.
- Experience applying detection and response concepts to on-premise and cloud environments, specifically AWS and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and associated threat actor techniques.
- Ability to write quality, robust, and testable code in at least one programming language such as Python or Go.
- Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in cybersecurity, threat detection, or related fields.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: $189,000 - $303,000 per year
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits (unspecified)
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