Principal Security Engineer

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What you'll be doing...

The GN&T Network Security team is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Principal Security Engineer with expertise in security detections, EDR systems and data engineering to join the Network Security Foundational team.

Successful candidates will be able to apply their expertise in the design, and implementation of cutting-edge and mission critical security detections used to detect and mitigate sophisticated threats facing Verizon and our customers. The Network Intelligence infrastructure consists of several large scale compute and storage clusters that are used to analyze petabyte scale network and security event data sets for anomalous and malicious network activity.

As a senior technical lead on our team, you won't just be monitoring dashboards; you will be the architect of our detection strategy and the primary defender of our infrastructure and global network.

In this role, you will be an owner of our Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) ecosystem and our SIEM visibility. You will be expected to anticipate how an adversary thinks, build the systems to catch them, and lead the technical discussions when high-stakes incidents occur.

Key Responsibilities

• Detection Engineering:
  Design, build, and optimize advanced security detections within the Splunk platform. You will move beyond basic alerts to create high-fidelity, risk-based alerting (RBA) models that identify complex attack patterns.

• EDR Strategy & Management:
  Serve as the global SME for our Crowd Strike environment. This includes managing large-scale deployments, tuning prevention policies, and performing deep-dive forensic analysis on endpoint telemetry.

• Linux Security Mastery:
  You will work primarily on linux-based systems developing detections and investigating EDR-based alerts and detections.

• Data Engineering:
  Analyze, normalize and utilize data to identify certain security patterns and properties.

• Scripting and Coding:
  Build small programs and scripts to solve problems and automate tasks to allow the team to move faster and be more efficient.

Where you'll be working...

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days in one of the offices listed for this position. In order to be eligible to apply for this position, you must be within commuting distance of one of those locations.

What we're looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Principal-Level Cybersecurity Foundations: A "first-principles" understanding of cybersecurity, from memory corruption and buffer overflows to global identity-based attacks.

• Endpoint Expertise:
  Deep experience managing EDR/XDR detections  should be comfortable pivoting from a high-level alert to raw process trees and memory strings to validate a threat.

• The Linux Specialist:
  You are intimately familiar with the Linux boot process, system, PAM, and how attackers leverage them for persistence. You can process audited logs and quickly find the anomaly.

• Network Intelligence:
  Advanced knowledge of networking protocols (BGP, TLS/SSL, DNS).

• Programming/Scripting:
  Expert knowledge in developing scripts and writing programs (e.g. Python) to automate tasks and solve problems.

• Data Engineering:
  Advanced knowledge of database systems, the relational database…