United States onlyGuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.
The Senior Security Engineer is responsible for the set up of security alerting tools and technologies (SIEM, IDS/IPS, anti- malware, etc.) as well as security orchestration and automation response (SOAR) and be able to translate indicators of compromise (IOCs) into actionable alerts with automated response. Constantly looking to improve the speed, effectiveness and quality of security alerting to identify threats faster and stop them from achieving their objectives.
What You'll Get To Do:
- Help the SOC transform manual processes into automated playbooks inside the SOAR platform
- Build behavioral analytics to detect insider threats
- Engage with other aspects of the Technical Operations including ticketing, monitoring, and detection tools
- Create detection logic tailored to the enterprise threat landscape using industry-specific intelligence and develop use cases, dashboards and policies
- Work closely with the Security Analyst to automate the collection of supporting information for alert analysis and resulting defensive response
- Respond to high-priority requests for information/custom detections from key partners
- Manage and update Threat Operations procedures and workflows/playbooks
- Become a subject matter expert in the customers' high value assets and targets
- Build novel monitoring and alerting playbooks to address potential targeted attacks
- Perform other security operations necessary for continuous monitoring and triaging the platform.
You'll Bring These Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 years experience in SOC operations building dashboards and custom data analysis for threat application
- 1+ years of scripting, Python strongly desired
- Ability to demonstrate analytical expertise, close attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, logic, and solution orientation and to learn and adapt quickly
- Knowledge of how common protocols and applications work at the network level, including DNS & HTTPS
- Experience using the Linux command line interface (CLI)
These Qualifications Would Be Nice To Have:
- Experience managing or developing detection logic for enterprise SIEM systems
- Experience with exploitation techniques and use case development
- Experience with IOC datasets (e.g., YARA, OpenIOC, STIX)
- Experience deploying to, and leveraging cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) to extend operational capabilities
- Strong knowledge of network monitoring and network exploitation techniques, including the MITRE ATT&CK technique framework and other common attack vectors
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Why GuidePoint?
GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1000 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 4,200 customers.Firmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company’s success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. At GuidePoint, your colleagues are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced and will seek to collaborate and provide mentorship and guidance at every opportunity.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to grow your career along with one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.
Some added perks….
- Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
- 100% employer-paid medical premiums (employee only $0 deductible and HSA plans) along with 75% employer-paid family contributions
- 100% employer-paid dental premiums (employee only) along with 75% employer-paid family contributions
- 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
- Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
- Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
- Pet Benefit Option
