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The Senior Threat Detection Engineer at Jones Lang LaSalle ( JLL ) leads the engineering, creation, and tuning of advanced detection capabilities. This role bridges threat hunting, data engineering, and automation to protect enterprise and cloud-native environments from sophisticated threat actors.
Key Responsibilities
- Detection Engineering: Design, implement, and tune high-fidelity detection rules across SIEM, EDR/XDR, and cloud-native SaaS platforms.
- Data Pipeline Management: Work with centralized logging, data lakes, and detection telemetry.
- Threat Modeling & Hunting: Proactively analyze attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and execute hypothesis-driven threat hunting campaigns.
- Automation & AI Integration: Implement security automations using SOAR platforms and explore AI/ML and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance incident response and automated response actions.
- Collaboration: Partner closely with SOC, Red Team, and Threat Intel to validate signal quality, reduce false positives, and improve MITRE ATT&CK coverage.
- Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level security engineers.
Typical Requirements & Qualifications
- Experience: 4–8+ years in cybersecurity, with a heavy emphasis on threat detection, incident response, or SOC operations.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related quantitative field.
- Demonstrative experience in developing automation solutions for Cyber Security
- 5+ years Information Technology experience
- 4+ years of Cyber Security Experience
- 2+ years of any SOAR tool experience (Splunk SOAR, Sentinel, Swimlane, etc
- Experience in utilizing CI/CD tools (such as GitHub Actions) to automate build, test, and deployment processes, ensuring smooth and efficient software delivery
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to automate infrastructure provisioning and ensure consistent environments throughout the development lifecycle
- Strong verbal communications skills and concise written communication skills
- Strong organizational and multi-tasking and time management skills
- Prefers to work in agile team environment