Threat Specialist

2 weeks ago

Waterloo, Canada eSentire Full time

eSentire is looking for highly capable individuals to be part of our Tactical Threat Response team. eSentire is a recognized industry leader and one of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Tech company. We work in a collaborative and innovative work environment with brilliant and passionate people who strive and encourage others to do their best. Join us to gain rewarding and developing career experience with the ability to grow and make an impact from your work.

THE OPPORTUNITY

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Identifying, organizing, and processing new novel detection techniques
- Triaging new detectors
- Detector development
- Visualization and dashboard creation
- Deployment and Support
- Ongoing tuning and maintenance
- Work with security vendors to understand integrations and threat coverage for new threats

DESIRED SKILLS
- Threat Modeling: Understand how adversaries will attack cloud infrastructure, what their goals may be, and where detection opportunities exist
- Threat Hunting: Understand adversary behavior, develop a hypothesis, design hunts, and interpret the results
- Process oriented: Experience understanding, following, updating, and creating repeatable instructions for day-to-day activities
- Independent self-starter: Experience independently generating ideas, developing a plan, and executing on that plan

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Experience analyzing log and cloud data and developing rules that may require you to use regex, YARA, Sigma, or any other enterprise grade technology or formats
- Experience developing visualizations and security dashboards used for investigations
- Experience with a SIEM
- Experience parsing and normalizing raw data
- Experience analyzing large security data sets
- Knowledge of Mitre ATT&CK
- Knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures and how these activities are manifested in log and cloud data
- Ability to review threat intelligence and design rules and investigations
- Knowledge of operating systems and networking
- Knowledge of Incident Response/Forensics
- Understanding of industry standard content formats such as Yara, Sigma, STIX/TAXII, and vendor specific formats

Why a Career with eSentire?

**Our Culture**: At eSentire we work in a collaborative and innovative work environment. We work with brilliant and passionate people who strive and encourage others to do their best. eSentire’s idea-rich environment welcomes creative and sometimes unconventional perspectives

**Growth Opportunities**: At eSentire you will have the opportunity to grow and make an impact from your work. We encourage innovation in all who become a part of our team. With growing operations internationally, there is lots of lateral and upward advancement opportunities for rewarding and developing careers with eSentire. We’re strong believers in continuing education and provide the resources that you need to continue learning.

**Employee Perks**: Every day we provide breakfast, snacks and refreshments (at our Waterloo office), flexible working hours, half day off birthdays, subsidies for continuing education and health & wellness, and attractive compensation and benefits plans. We make it our obligation to the team to stay current with compensation trends in the tech field

We thank all applicants in advance for applying. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

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