Senior Blue Team Engineer

Are you passionate about technology and enjoy explaining complex solutions in a way that everybody gets excited? If so, read on!

Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing, and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort.

The Picus Security Validation Platform easily reaches across on-prem environments, hybrid clouds and endpoints coupled with Numi AI to provide exposure validation.

The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus delivers award-winning threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing, offering a 98% recommendation in Gartner Peer Review.

If you’re a results-driven person with an entrepreneurial mindset, who takes the initiative and thrives in a dynamic environment, then this is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing cyber security company. We are looking for a smart and driven leader to have a direct impact on the future of our business by helping to influence global adoption of our award-winning Picus Security Validation Platform.

We're looking to grow our team to support the high growth and global expansion plans of Picus with developing new technologies. With this role, you'll get a chance to work for innovation. You will be constantly challenged and you will get to develop your knowledge and skills in cyber security technologies. This is an amazing opportunity where you get to research for a fast-growing cyber security startup.

As a Senior Blue Team Engineer in Picus Labs, you will manage internal SOC processes, analyze new adversarial techniques and attacks developed by Picus Labs Red Team and develop threat detection & hunting scenarios. You will research new threat detection & hunting methodologies and technologies, onboard and iterate.

Picus is headquartered in Ankara, with a regional office in Istanbul, but our team is remote across Türkiye. Please note that all CVs must be submitted in English.

• Analyze, understand, and leverage public research on emerging cyber threats, detection methods and tools,
• Research and apply Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) methodologies by conducting thorough studies on best practices, then implement and continuously refine them to proactively identify, expose, and mitigate vulnerabilities in response to evolving threats,
• Research and develop hardening methodologies for cybersecurity defenses by analyzing best practices and frameworks,
• Deploy, configure, and manage endpoint security technologies, including XDR, EDR, SIEM, and EPP solutions, to evaluate their response to Picus Attack Scenarios,
• Design and develop both open-source and vendor-based threat detection scenarios,
• Utilize AI and data analysis techniques to create innovative cybersecurity solutions that enhance threat detection and response capabilities,
• Optimize detection rules to improve the accuracy and efficiency of threat detection, reducing false positives while enhancing the ability to identify cyber threats,
• Develop and maintain tools to support the Detection Development Life Cycle,
• Conduct research on new threat hunting methodologies, tools, and technologies to stay ahead of evolving threats,
• Onboard, configure, and maintain detection and hunting products (e.g., SIEM, EDR) to enhance security operations,
• Optimize internal SOC technologies and processes to improve threat detection and response capabilities,
• Utilize threat intelligence services and malware sandboxes to effectively hunt for and analyze emerging malware threats,
• Collaborate with Picus Labs Red Team for purple teaming exercises to improve defenses,
• Partner with engineering teams to contribute to the development and refinement of new product features.

• Hands-on experience in hunting current adversarial techniques,
• Experience with security monitoring, incident detection, and response in…