Senior Security Operations Engineer

Position Title: Senior Security Operations Engineer

Reports To: Director of Security Operations

Senior Security Operations Engineer is a technical subject matter expert responsible for executing key functions of CDK's Security Monitoring and Response strategy with an automation first mindset. This individual plays a key technical role in our Security Operations organization and enables effective incident response via automated workflows and efficient threat detection content.

Key Responsibilities :

1. Technical Leadership:

2. Exemplify security principles and culture

3. Develop, implement, and tune automation playbooks that enable incident response

4. Self-starter who spots improvement opportunities and collaborates with the team to bring from idea to implementation

5. Effectively partner across security, technology, and business teams

6. Provide technical leadership to the security operations team

7. Develop effective metrics and use them to drive meaningful improvements

8. Automated Detection & Response

9. Work with security operations team members to identify response actions which can be automated to drive efficiency throughout response

10. Build automation workflows to contribute to auditable and efficient incident response

11. Drive continuous improvement in CDK's detection capability using automation, threat and anomaly detection, coverage assurance, and external threat intelligence

12. Build threat detection queries based on attacker techniques and threat intelligence

13. Support and tune threat detection content and automation workflows based on metrics and security operations feedback

14. Incident Response:

15. Develop incident response playbooks and drive response playbook automation, regularly test playbook effectiveness and drive improvement

16. Lead response to medium or higher criticality impact security incidents in accordance with the incident response plan, and effectively coordinate with internal and external parties

17. Effectively triage and identify root cause of security alerts and incidents

18. Serve as a technical leader for significant security incidents

19. Assure 24x7x365 incident response coverage and escalation processes

20. Regularly update the list of likely security incident scenarios using external threat intelligence, collaboration with internal technology teams, and other data sources

21. Security Posture Improvement

22. Use offensive security techniques and exercises to identify detection and response gaps and drive remediation

23. Regularly practice incident response plans and procedures in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders

Required Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or an equivalent experience

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years IT, with at least 3 years in a security operations or automation role

• Technical expertise in python, javascript , and powershell

• Experience leading the response to enterprise security alerts and incidents

• Strong background in security monitoring, automation, and incident response, preferably in a complex SaaS environment

• Experience with SIEM tools, process automation, cloud environment monitoring, IDS/IPS, firewalls, EDR solutions, MDR/MSSP providers

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