SOAR Engineer, Cyber Defense Detection

Remote Locations

Remote locations: United Kingdom;
Austria;
Belgium;
Ireland;
Romania.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in a detection engineering, SOAR automation, or related role.
• 3 years of experience working with SOC/Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) or other incident response related teams.
• Experience with detection tuning and creation leveraging various security tools (e.g., SIEM, EDR, or NDR tools).
• Experience of scripting languages (e.g., Power Shell and Python).
• English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless otherwise stated.

• One or more of the following certifications or similar:
  CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+, CISCO (CCNA), ISC2 (CISSP), SANS (GSEC, GCIH, GCED, GCFA, GCIA, GNFA, GPEN).
• Experience with SPL, KQL, YARA-L or similar SIEM query languages, with an understanding of SIEM log flow, aggregation, and forwarding.
• Experience managing and maintaining SOAR platforms and its dependencies, and working with/integrating APIs into automation playbooks.
• Experience with content engineering inside SIEM platforms (e.g., rule creation, advanced correlation searching, etc.).
• Understanding of logging for common platforms and devices, including Linux and network equipment.
• Ability to engage and collaborate with client stakeholders and other groups within the customer environment to drive resolution for security issues.

In this role, you will be responsible for enabling the technology and tools required to accomplish daily tasks within a Cyber Defense Center (CDC). You will collaborate with multiple cross‑functional teams such as Security Architects, Security Analysts, Client Information Technology (IT) resources, and other business resource owners to define requirements and deliver recommendations focused on technologies required to support the client's CDC.

In addition, you will be responsible for maintaining the operational readiness of client Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and SOAR, creating detection content and automation playbooks, managing integrations, identifying areas for improvement, and setting appropriate configurations of the SIEM/Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) or related response technologies required for a client's security operations center (SOC) to maintain effective incident detection and response capabilities.

• Identify issues in customer Cyber Defense Centers and formulate strategies for improvement, plan implementation of improvements, and execute/oversee plans to completion.
• Create and modify SIEM use cases and detection logic, leveraging cyber threat intelligence, written in technology‑specific query language or Sigma open signature format.
• Provide expertise for SIEM, SOAR, and other SOC technologies that assist in incident response, create and modify SOAR playbooks written in Python.
• Measure and improve alert fidelity through metrics creation, tracking, responding to tuning requests, implementing incident‑specific detection logic, etc.
• Engage and collaborate with client stakeholders and other groups within customer environment to drive resolution for security issues.

• Austria: €88,000 - €90,500 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Belgium: €94,000 - €96,500 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Ireland: €86,000 - €88,500 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
• Equity is granted exclusively and discretely by Alphabet Inc. according to an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc.; equity grants are not guaranteed.

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