Security Operations & Threat Hunting Engineer

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Job Description:

Summary

The Security Operations Center (SOC) EngineerRole is designed to provide senior level leadership for the design, engineering, and implementation of the security event data collection for the Enterprise Information Security organization related to incident response, threat monitoring, threat intelligence, and operations across SIEM platforms.This Role will be engaged in work related todata identification, assessment, ingestion, normalizationand enrichment activities required for Ryder’s Security Operations Center to perform proper detection and analytics of cyber threats and response.The role alsoprovides proactive and preventive analysis of systems through product-specific SIEM tools and ancillary solutions used in security. The role also ensures SIEM solutions aid in the output of metrics to senior management to help maintaina safe and secure enterprise technical operation. Daily, the engineer ensures SIEM solutions are healthy, maintainingintegrity and performing optimally, and that capacitykeeps up with demandas well as managing and optimizingsecurity infrastructure, including robust monitoring, effective alerting, automation, comprehensive reporting, and hands-on system administration.To be successful, a solid understanding of and practical hands-on experience with security principles, host configurationsand networking is required.

Essential Functions

• Serve as the SOC engineer for SIEM design, related components, and the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) of logs.
• Implement and manage automated alerting systems to ensure timely detection and response to potential security incidents, enabling proactive mitigation efforts.
• Oversee the management and maintenance of security systems, ensuring proper configuration, regular updates, and seamless integration into the organization's broader security infrastructure. This includes the continual evaluation of system performance and effectiveness.
• Maintain and manage a variety of security tools and hardware, ensuring their optimal performance, availability, and configuration. This includes routine hardware upkeep, troubleshooting technical issues, and software updates to align with industry standards and emerging technological advancements.
• Integrate threat intelligence into operational frameworks to enhance detection capabilities. This involves analyzing external intelligence sources, correlating them with internal data, and adapting defense strategies based on insights.
• Lead and perform the content development within the SIEM platform which includes use case creation, dashboard design, tuning of use cases to minimize false positives, development of reporting metrics such as SLA and KPI reports and Log source configuration.
• Leverage SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) technologies to streamline and automate incident response workflows, reducing reaction times and improving operational efficiency.
• Review and enhance logging information flow strategies and technical information flow required for log onboarding; create the work plan required for logging onboarding to include determining the technical details.
• Help correlate events to support SOC response requirements.

Additional Responsibilities

• Be readily available for incident response, forensic, troubleshooting and security issues requiring event details.
• Support SOC automation initiatives leveraging playbooks, while also using human analysis as needed.
• Actively engage in security projects across the business to implement event and logging requirements.
• Actively participate in threat hunting tabletop exercises to hone and strengthen skills across the team.
• Maintain up-to-date level of knowledge related to security threats, vulnerabilities and mitigations set forth to reduce attack surface.
• Openly support the CISO, management team and executive leadership, even during tumultuous times.
• Support SOC Analyst Tier 1-3
• Act as an escalation point for the security Analysts to assist and advise on the most complex security threat investigations.
• Leverage advanced knowledge of security operations, cyber security tools, intrusion detection, and secured networks to integrate with eh SIEM platform.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills and Abilities

• Strong communication skills, enabling effective collaboration across various departments and clear articulation of findings and recommendations., Required
• Ability to analyze event and incident logs and work with SOC and IR teams to assess security events related to malware, vulnerabilities, exploits and kill chain methodology., Required
• Ability to interface with threat intelligence platforms and SOAR solutions to centralize and manage incidents and remediation workflow., Required
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills to navigate and prioritize multiple security tasks simultaneously while maintaining focus on key objectives., Required
• Ability to liaison to conduct tabletop exercises for security incidents and events., Required
• Ability to grasp and assess “big picture” issues and bring them to light to foster positive change for a more robust data ingestion platform and process., Required
• Strong project management, multitasking and organizational skills., Required
• Capable of working with diverse teams and promoting a positive enterprise-wide security culture, Required
• Highly organized, efficient, self-starter requiring minimal supervision., Required

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or 4+ years as a Cyber Security/SOC Engineer, Required
• 4 years or more in Cybersecurity or information technology practitioner experience., Required
• 4 years or more in Experience configuring Log data collection, enrichment, deployment, integration and deployment., Preferred
• 4 years or more in Experience operating in a Security Operations Center (SOC) and incident response environment., Preferred
• Knowledgeable of and hands-on experience with supporting intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), firewalls, endpoint solutions, data loss prevention (DLP), Active Directory (AD) and application security. Intermediate, Required
• Advanced knowledge of operating system configuration (Windows, Unix, Linux) and networking (DNS, DHCP, routing protocols). Intermediate, Required
• Strong understanding of key performance indicators (KPIs) and service-level agreements (SLAs) attributed to security and business objectives for key stakeholders. Advanced, Required
• Experienced with one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.). Intermediate, Preferred
• Experience preparing and delivering presentations to peers or senior executives. Intermediate, Required
• & Information Risk, Privacy, or Security Certification (CISSP, CCSK, CCSP, PCSM), Required, 1 Year

Travel

• Yes, 0-10%

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