Director, Threat Detection
Location: NYC
Compensation: $200,000 - $275,000
Glocomms are partnered with a globally leading Hedge Fund in the search for a Director, Threat Detection to join their global threat detection team based out of NYC leading a team of 8-10 heads.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead a global team of highly technical hands-on Engineers across US, EMEA, and APAC.
- Conduct threat hunting activities to identify adversaries targeting the firms' systems.
- Create and rollout detection rules for cyber threat prevention against the firms' systems.
- Ensure security logs are thoroughly reviewed to support and further develop detection capabilities and support risk.
- Create threat intelligence reports as it relates to the cyber cyber/threat landscape and present all reports to senior leadership.
- Research and analyze threat actor/group TTPs in order to convert them to detection solutions in various languages and tools.
- Develop the firms' detection-as-code ecosystem to improve detection and response time and accuracy.
- Collaborate with other businesses units to become well-versed with internal network and use this knowledge to conduct further in-depth threat hunts.
Experience required:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Security Engineering, or a similar field (Master in Cyber Security preferred!)
- 8+ years of experience in SecOps/Endpoint Security.
- Deep technical experience using Python programming language.
- Strong expertise in conducting analysis o f security logs, packet captures, network devices, and media.
- In-depth knowledge of the cyber threat landscape including threat actor/group TTPs.
- Experience working in a SOC/NOC environment.
