Detection Engineer

About the position

Come join Deepwatch’s team of world-class cybersecurity professionals and the brightest minds in the industry. If you're ready to challenge yourself with work that matters, then this is the place for you. We're redefining cybersecurity as one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. – and we have a blast doing it! Who We Are Our core values drive everything we do at Deepwatch, including our approach to tackling tough cyber challenges. We seek out tenacious individuals who are passionate about solving complex problems and protecting our customers. At Deepwatch, every decision, process, and hire is made with a focus on improving our cybersecurity solutions and delivering an exceptional experience for our customers. By embracing our values, we create a culture of excellence that is dedicated to empowering our team members to explore their potential, expand their skill sets, and achieve their career aspirations, which is supported by our unique annual professional development benefit. Deepwatch recognition includes: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 Great Place to Work® Certified 2024 Military Times Best for Vets Employers 2024 US Department of Labor Hire Vets Gold Award 2024 Forbes' America's Best Startup Employers 2024 Cyber Defense Magazine, Global Infosec Awards 2023 and 2022 Fortress Cybersecurity Award 2023 \$180M Series C investment from Springcoast Capital Partners, Splunk Ventures, and Vista Credit Partners of Vista Equity Partners 2022 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for MDR Detection Engineer Reports to: Senior Manager Threat Detection & Research Hybrid Tampa, FL Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Threat Detection & Research the Detection Engineer will serve as a subject matter expert in cybersecurity detections. This individual will participate in cybersecurity detection strategy, creation, tuning, validation, and correlation to ensure that Deepwatch customers have effective detections in place against an ever-changing threat landscape. Deepwatch Detection Engineers perform a wide array of tasks in an effort to increase alert fidelity, reduce false positives, and better inform MDR Security Analysts. Detection Engineers have a direct impact on customer security posture over time by increasing the operational efficiency and effectiveness of MDR Security Analysts and by aligning efforts with customer security priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and document new Detection Capabilities for customer environments
  • Work with customers to develop a comprehensive strategy for effective detections
  • Leverage industry frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK Framework, for customer-facing alert improvement roadmap
  • Apply knowledge of common detection tools (Azure logging, command line logging, etc.) to advise customers on logging capabilities to expand applicable detection library
  • Confidently prioritize log sources for ingestion and enablement
  • Evaluate current monitoring and detection capabilities to identify areas for improvement
  • Conduct Detection Gap Analyses
  • Manage detection capabilities to ensure appropriate coverage, effective operation, and adherence to Deepwatch standards
  • Detection Enablement
  • Detection Effectiveness (Tuning, Validation, etc.)
  • Detection Creation
  • Onboard assigned customers, establishing baseline detection coverage and detection enablement plan post onboarding
  • Ensure ingested log sources conform to CIM standards

Requirements

  • Experience working for a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) or similar cybersecurity organization
  • Experience working and querying SIEM tools or other log-based data preferably Splunk
  • Experience in engineering event detection & response tuning
  • Ability to engineer creative, scalable, and out-of-the-box solutions
  • Up to date with engineering best practices, security technology trends, tools, and frameworks
  • Experience in developing detections for attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
  • Able to both investigate and create security rules in at least 1 SIEM
  • Understanding of general enterprise network architecture and security incident response
  • Understanding of common enterprise technologies and logging capabilities including Cloud, IDS/IPS, Firewalls, Active Directory, Anti-Virus/EDR, Proxies, and Email Gateway
  • Understanding of various attack frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and general adversarial / defensive security techniques (e.g. the Cyber Kill Chain, and NIST)
  • Ability to communicate and document technical information effectively towards various audience

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance
  • Flexible Time Off (FTO), 12 company holidays, sick leave and 8-Weeks Paid Parental Leave
  • Unique professional development benefits with Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
  • Wellness contests and monthly educational programs
  • 401(K) retirement program
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