Senior Threat Detection & Response Engineer

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

HashiCorp (An IBM Company)

Sr. Threat Detection & Response Engineer

We're looking for talented Threat Detection & Response Engineers to join our Security Operations Team. This team will help defend HashiCorp through strategic detection, response, and prevention patterns across all of our products and the enterprise. This person will be responsible for enhancing our detection capabilities through threat research, rule creation and alert investigation, tool development, and collaboration across teams to understand potential threat vectors which cannot be fully prevented.

You will partner with engineering and other stakeholders to define and drive a rapid response program to secure our vast technological footprint supporting our products and the enterprise. Tooling and automation will be key to success as we scale our environments to meet customer demand. Lastly, we can't detect what we can't see, so driving visibility improvements across the company will be key to ensuring the IR function is always equipped with the necessary data to perform their job function.

You may be a good fit:

• Comfortable participating in on-call rotations handling security alerts and incidents
• Ability to breakdown complex detection logic and to teach other team members how the detection works, the theory behind it, and also what to do when the alert is triggered
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and researching emerging threats
• Understanding of different types of detection engines and knowing the right tool to leverage at the right time
• Understand how to properly determine scope and impact from an array of multiple alerting systems monitoring both corporate IT and production environments
• Comfortable with the incident response process, from triage to closure, providing various levels of support and coordination across multiple teams

Note to Candidates: This is a list of items we think would define a successful candidate but we encourage you to apply if you feel you are a great match.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 5+ years of experience in a role performing Threat Detection or Incident Response
• Proficiency in coding with Python or Golang, with a desire to continue to build these skills and contribute to internal tool development.
• Understanding of what logs are available and useful for:
  • Linux (Production Workloads)
  • AWS (Primary), Google Cloud Platform, Azure
• Understand how to develop rules utilizing hypothesis driven detection research leveraging tools such as:
  • Python
  • Athena, SQL, Presto etc.
  • Threat Intelligence Services and OSINT
  • CI / CD experience
  • Familiarity with common Detection or Infrastructure as Code deployment processes (Terraform, Sigma)

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

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This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

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