Detection and Response Engineer

City of Westminster
2 months ago
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Opportunity to progress your career in a senior, hands-on role at a global systematic trading firm.

As a Detection and Response Engineer you will improve and optimise the firm's capability to effectively monitor, detect, respond and remediate security incidents; you'll monitor and analyse security events and alerts from various sources to detect threats and contribute to designing and continuously improving security tooling.

Responsibilities will include co-ordinating incident response activities including investigation, containment, remediation, recovery and lessons learnt, collaborating with cross functional teams to improve detection capabilities including deploying new tooling, log ingestion and enrichment, development of use cases and playbooks and design of automated response mechanisms as well as pro-actively performing threat intelligence driven hunting.

Location / WFH:

You'll join colleagues based in high spec offices with free breakfast and lunch at the onsite restaurant, with flexibility to work from home two days a week.

About you:

You have experience of creating customised security detection use cases
You have experience in digital forensics analysis and incident response
You have a good knowledge of SIEM, EDR / XDR, Firewalls / IDS / IPS tools and experience of implementing automation procedures for seamless security operations
You have a strong understanding of different adversary tactics, techniques and procedures
You have experience of working in hybrid public cloud / on-prem environments utilising various operating systems (Windows, Linux)
You can code / script with Python, Bash or PowerShell
You have advanced analysis and problem solving skillsWhat's in it for you:

As a Detection and Response Engineer you will earn a competitive package:

Salary to £130k
Significant Bonus
Pension
Private Healthcare
25 days holiday
Opportunity to work on Greenfield systems at the cutting
Continual learning and development opportunitiesApply now to find out more about this Detection and Response Engineer opportunity.

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