# Detection and Response Engineer

Responsibilities: Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across customer cloud environments, determining scope, impact, and root cause. Develop, tune, and maintain detection rules and correlation logic to improve fidelity and reduce false positives. Conduct proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunts to uncover previously unknown threats and detection gaps. Respond to security incidents, executing containment and eradication steps and recommending recovery actions; escalate high-severity incidents as appropriate. Participate in the team's on-call/rotational schedule to support 24/7 detection and response coverage. Write clear, accurate incident reports and customer-facing updates on findings and remediation guidance. Contribute to and maintain playbooks, runbooks, and standard operating procedures for the DRE function. Build scripts and automations (Python, Bash, SQL) to speed up investigations and response workflows. Map detections and investigations to the MITRE ATT& CK framework to track coverage. Share field-identified detection gaps, tooling needs, and platform feedback with Product and Engineering. Collaborate with Software Development, SRE, and Customer Success team

- **Id**: 3782896
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/exaforce-detection-and-response-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T01:35:45Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T01:35:45Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3037
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Information Security, Security Operations

## Company

- **Id**: 451082
- **Name**: Exaforce
- **Domain**: exaforce.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/exaforce>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Entra ID** — Optional: yes
- **Okta** — Optional: yes
- **SIEM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T01:35:45Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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