SecOps Threat Detection Engineer

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Are you a seasoned cybersecurity professional with a passion for proactive threat detection and deep expertise in Splunk? We're searching for a highly skilled SecOps Threat Detection Engineer to join our dynamic security team. In this pivotal role, you'll be instrumental in developing, optimizing, and managing advanced SIEM dashboards, searches, and alerts to safeguard our systems in real-time. If you thrive on enhancing threat visibility and collaborating on incident response, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, optimize, and manage SIEM dashboards, searches, and alerts to identify potential security threats in real-time.
• Create and refine custom SIEM use cases, correlation rules, and detection logic to enhance threat visibility across systems and networks
• Perform threat hunting and analyze log data to proactively identify anomalies and gaps in current use case library.
• Collaborate with incident response teams to investigate and mitigate security incidents, providing detailed forensic analysis when required.
• Maintain and tune SIEM deployments, ensuring data integrity, performance, and scalability.
• Integrate SIEM with other security tools and data sources to improve detection accuracy and coverage.
• Stay current on evolving cyber threats, attack techniques, and industry best practices to continuously
  improve detection strategies. 
• Document processes, detection methodologies, and incident findings for knowledge sharing and compliance purposes.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with at least 4 years focused on SIEM use case development.
• Highly proficient in Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), including SPL (Search Processing Language), dashboard creation, and alert configuration.
  • Strong understanding of network protocols, system logs, and security event analysis.
• Experience with threat intelligence integration and applying MITRE ATT&CK framework to detection
  efforts.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, PowerShell) for automation and data analysis is a plus.
• Familiarity with offensive security tactics & techniques such as red teaming and advanced penetration testing is a plus.
• Relevant certifications such as Splunk Certified Power User, Splunk Certified Admin, or cybersecurity certifications such as OSCP, GPEN, GCIH, GCFE are highly preferred.
• Knowledge of additional SIEM platforms or security tools (e.g., Elastic, QRadar, CrowdStrike).
• Ability to mentor team members and contribute to a collaborative security culture

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About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.