Anduril Industries

defense technology

SeniorDetection&ResponseEngineer

$166–220k Costa Mesa, California, United States
The Brief

“Senior Detection & Response Engineer at Anduril Industries. Skills: Detection and Response, Security Architecture, Threat Modeling, Automation, Data Engineering. Provide technical leadership, vision, and strategy for the advancement of the Detection and Response capability. Collaborate with product security and engineering teams to architect and implement detection and response frameworks”

What You'll Achieve.

building world class defensive controls to protect the infrastructure around our advanced defense technology products; architect and implement detection and response frameworks for Anduril’s products, assets, and other custom applications; optimize tailored detection signatures, response playbooks, and response automation; incorporating findings into security controls and/or detection signatures; emit signals to incorporate into detections, new telemetry ingestion, and/or security controls; scale this capability across the business

Industry & Context.

defense technology
Eligibility Requirements

Must be able to obtain and hold a U. S. Top Secret security clearance

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Programming experience in one or more general purpose languages (Python, SQL, Go, Rust, etc), Experience conducting data analysis in large-scale data lake environments, Experience deploying infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation, etc), Experience working in a traditional software development lifecycle (i. e. Github, CI/CD, unit testing), Extensive experience utilizing AWS / Azure security controls and services, Broad range of practical security knowledge across the spectrum of endpoint, network, identity, application, and cloud infrastructure, knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), communication skills and experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, Must be able to obtain and hold a U. S. Top Secret security clearance

Nice to Have

Experience deploying infrastructure using Kubernetes (EKS) and/or Docker containers (ECS), Experience proactively threat hunting using threat intelligence to identify potential risks and weaknesses in telemetry

What You'll Do.

Provide technical leadership

and strategy for the advancement of the Detection and Response capability

Collaborate with product security and engineering teams to architect and implement detection and response frameworks

Build and optimize tailored detection signatures

and response automation

Lead threat modeling scenarios

Contribute directly to the development and advancement of our detection-as-code

and infrastructure capabilities

Mature the detection and response of threat actors

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with product security and engineering teams; Lead threat modeling scenarios with cross-functional partners; Collaborate across many teams to emit signals; Work cross-collaboratively with different teams

Communication Scope

communication skills and experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders

Free ATS check

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