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Lead Consultant-Threat Detection Engineer
AstraZeneca
posted 15hr ago
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- Design and implement threat detection mechanisms across cloud, on-premises, and third-party collaboration platforms to identify suspicious activities and potential threats.
- Develop, test, and deploy high fidelity signature and anomaly-based detections.
- Partner with engineering teams to build and maintain pipelines for collecting and processing relevant security telemetry.
- Research emerging threat vectors and align detection and response capabilities with the evolving threat landscape.
- Continuously refine detection rules and address systemic issues by collaborating with engineering teams.
- Automate detection and response workflows, including playbooks and processes.
- Facilitate log data onboarding into the SIEM.
- Correlate and analyze data from diverse sources to uncover threats.
- Enhance detection workflows with automation and enriched alerts.
- Use expertise across multiple security domains, with a focus on two or more areas such as detection engineering, digital forensics, incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, or malware analysis.
- Prepare reports and metrics related to threat detection efficacy and coverage.
- 3+ years in Security Incident Response and Detection Engineering.
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
- Eager to learn new technologies and methodologies to counter evolving threats.
- Strong English communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with multi-functional teams and explain technical concepts to non-technical individuals.
- Experience creating detection rules using SPL, KQL, or Tanium signals, including tuning and correlation.
- Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Hands-on experience with EDR tools such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Tanium, and Trend Micro.
- Ability to assess diverse data sources to develop relevant and impactful detections.
- Strong understanding of false positive vs. true positive alerts.
- In-depth knowledge of anti-malware, EDR, firewalls, proxies, IDS/IPS, Windows/Linux OS, Active Directory, and cloud environments.
- Experience with SIEM and SOAR platforms (e.g., Splunk).
- Proficiency in programming and scripting languages, including expertise in using Regular Expressions (REGEX).
- Previous experience working with the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team to develop threat detections through collaboration.
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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Anonymous · Product Management
in Chennai
Opportunity to Learn and Develop as plenty of Subscriptions made available by the Organization for Employees to Grow in their Skills. Adequate amount of Facilities & Campus support.
- Salary - Good
Very poor in successions plan , poor career progression & mentality not a safe environment to work with. Frequent of layoffs & team shuffling, myself frequently impacted as many others who still in the organization, no clear career & personal growth. Excessive micro management even to those who are more than 15+ years of Experience. Speak up culture not in practice here.
- Job security - Poor
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