Senior SOC Engineer

The job at a glance:

As a Senior SOC Engineer you will be responsible for monitoring, analysing and responding to security threats, using tools like SIEM and EDR platforms. You'll lead incident detection and response efforts, ensuring swift containment and recovery. Your role involves automating security workflows using Python to enhance efficiency and leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework to map and analyse threats and create a staged visualization of the relevant attacks that potentially will materialize.

Your responsibilities:

• Analyse security data from diverse sources, including logs, EDR solutions, and network traffic, to identify and assess threats. Coordinate and lead security incident response efforts, including containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Develop and implement automation scripts and playbooks using Python to streamline incident detection, response, and reporting processes.
• Automate security alert triage, enrichment, and remediation workflows to reduce response time and improve efficiency.
• Use the MITRE ATT&CK framework to classify attack vectors, understand adversary behaviour, and enhance detection capabilities.
• Map security incidents and alerts to the MITRE ATT&CK tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for comprehensive analysis. Manage and configure EDR platforms for real-time endpoint monitoring and protection.

Requirements

Your skills and qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in a Security Operations Center (SOC) or similar role with hands-on experience with SIEM tools (e.g., Sentinel, QRadar, ArcSight).
• Proficient in Python for automation and scripting.
• Strong understanding of Incident Response processes and methodologies and experience with MITRE ATT&CK framework to map and analyse threats.
• Knowledge of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms (e.g., CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, SentinelOne). Familiarity with threat hunting techniques and processes.
• Certifications such as GSEC, CISSP, OSCP, MaD are preferred.

Additional information

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.