Cyber Defense Detection Engineer, Mandiant, Google Cloud

In this role, you will be responsible for helping clients effectively prepare to mitigate, and respond to cyber security threats. You will identify enterprise security requirements and provide guidance to enterprise initiatives. You will serve as technical support for security tools and assist with security tool implementation and integration into the customer environment. You will also provide guidance on the development of containment and remediation plans for cyber security incidents.

In addition, you will be the technical advocate for information security requirements and provide information of the security domain. You will execute on both strategic and tactical plans, including direct engagement and delivery in technical matters. You will articulate and present complex concepts to business stakeholders, executive leadership, and technical contributors.

Responsibilities

• Identify challenges 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 and other SOC technologies that assist in incident response.
• 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 the customer environment to drive resolution for security issues.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with detection tuning and creation leveraging various security tools (e.g., SIEM, EDR, or NDR tools).
• Experience with content engineering inside SIEM platforms (e.g., rule creation, advanced correlation searching, etc.).
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell and Python).
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as needed.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with SPL, KQL, YARA-L or similar SIEM query languages, with an understanding of SIEM log flow, aggregation, and forwarding.
• Ability to engage and collaborate with client stakeholders and other groups within the customer environment to drive resolution for security issues.
• Ability to develop executive stakeholder client relationships to achieve project/long-term strategic objectives.

The application window will be open until at least October 29, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.