Cyber Security Engineer - Hartford, CT, Princeton, NJ, Newark, NJ, New York City, NY, Boston, MA.

Job Title: Cyber Security Engineer
Location: Hartford, CT, Princeton, NJ, Newark, NJ, New York City, NY, Boston, MA.
Contract: 12+ Months
Looking for W2 candidates. No C2C

Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior SOC & Threat Detection Engineer to strengthen enterprise detection and response capabilities through advanced threat hunting, SIEM engineering, XDR platforms, and security automation. The ideal candidate should have expertise in Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Defender XDR, SOAR, and MITRE ATT&CK.

Key Responsibilities

·        Develop SIEM detection rules and analytics.

·        Perform advanced threat hunting.

·        Investigate complex security incidents.

·        Configure SOAR playbooks.

·        Analyze malware and ransomware attacks.

·        Develop threat intelligence use cases.

·        Optimize Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk.

·        Improve detection engineering.

·        Support incident response activities.

·        Mentor SOC analysts.

Required Skills

·        Microsoft Sentinel

·        Splunk Enterprise Security

·        Microsoft Defender XDR

·        CrowdStrike Falcon

·        SOAR

·        MITRE ATT&CK

·        Threat Hunting

·        Detection Engineering

·        KQL

·        Incident Response

·        PowerShell

·        Python

Preferred Skills

·        Microsoft Security Copilot

·        Microsoft Defender for Identity

·        Threat Intelligence

·        Sigma Rules

·        YARA

·        Velociraptor

Mandatory Skills

·        Microsoft Sentinel

·        Splunk

·        Defender XDR

·        CrowdStrike

·        Threat Hunting

·        SOAR

·        KQL

·        MITRE ATT&CK

·        Incident Response

·        Python

Best Regards:

Peerbhi SK
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