# Threat Detection Engineer

**Company**: IT Infrastructure
**Location**: Miami, Florida, United States of America
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Do you have a passion for hunting malicious activities in the background of business as usual and figuring out how to detect and respond to new threats?

Millennium SOC is transforming its security posture, and we're looking for an experienced Threat Detection Engineer to drive this change.

This is a highly technical role, requiring demonstrable knowledge and experience across various business and security technologies within a fast-paced organisation.

### Principal Responsibilities

- Threat Hunting: Leveraging multiple data sources to identify modern evolving threats and develop new detection and response approaches.

- Detection Engineering: Creating and operating high-fidelity detections mechanisms that drive efficient, effective, and repeatable response.

- Playbook Creation: Owning, operating, and automating detection and response workflows, enabling the team to focus on strategic objectives.

- Leading Information Security response activities for the firm.

- Team Player: Working across business and technology teams to deliver positive outcomes across the firm.

- Technical Prowess: Explaining complex technology and information security-related concepts to a wide range of stakeholders.

- Security Ambassador: Enforcing security policies and procedures by administering and monitoring appropriate systems, events, and answering stakeholder queries.

- Threat Intel: Actively monitoring new and emerging security and privacy-related technologies, trends, issues, and solutions and assessing their applicability to Millennium's key business initiatives and business strategies.

- Operational Excellence: Ensuring Millennium's Information Security capabilities remain fit for purpose and evolve to meet the changing threat landscape.

### Qualifications/Skills Required

- Bachelor or master's degree in computer science or cyber security with a strong IT background or equivalent demonstrable experience.

- 3 years' experience working in a security engineering role, financial industry experience preferred.

- Experience in creating detections in modern query languages (KQL, SQL, SPL).

- Possesses security certifications (Security+, OSCP, CISSP, CEH, GCIA, GCIH).

- Experience with modern security tooling across security domains; network, endpoint, data, identity, and cloud.

- Experience in standard enterprise technology stack, Active Directory, Entra, Group Policy, Intune, DNS, TCP/IP, PKI, Microsoft 365, Windows, Linux, MacOS, etc.

- Ability to handle sensitive and/or confidential materials with appropriate discretion.

- Required scripting, development, and automation skills using PowerShell or Python and proficient development tools.

- Experience in OSINT, Threat hunting, and analysing malicious emails.

- Able to prioritise in a fast-moving, high-pressure, constantly changing environment.

## Skills

### Required
- security certifications
- modern security tooling
- standard enterprise technology stack
- scripting, development, and automation skills
- OSINT, Threat hunting, and analysing malicious emails

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