Sr Cyber Threat Detection Engineer

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

Position Description/Responsibilities

• Partner with threat intel, hunt, and IR to develop use-cases for detection
• Write detection and correlation rules to identify threats across our stack
• Develop detection workflows, automation, and alert enrichment
• Integrate intel or technology APIs to increase our detect, prevent, and enrich operations
• Analyze and correlate data from various log sources and identify gaps in detection
• Assist in identifying and onboarding logs that create new detection value
• Deliver quarterly rule validation and purple team assessments
• Develop deep understanding of data models, macros, field alias, and field extractions

Minimum Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience at least one of the following domains: detection engineering, incident response, threat hunting, cyber intelligence
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Security Engineering, or Data Science

Critical Requirements

• Exceptional Splunk SPL knowledge​
• Ability to write concise and logical detection rules​
• Practical experience with threat intelligence IOCs and TTPs
• Experience developing use cases and priorities in an Agile process
• Ability to measure coverage across frameworks (e.g. MITRE & Kill Chain)
• Experience developing metrics for key performance indicators in alerts
• Experience shaping requirements for features, tools, or data improvements.
• Knowledge working with data, scripting, and automating inputs and outputs.
• Demonstrated interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to adopt and uphold McKesson values

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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