Senior Security Detection Engineer (Global Security)

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

The role of the Senior Security Detection Engineer is to provide specialized subject matter expertise for the Detection Engineering & Automation (DEA) team, for RBC's Global Cyber Security. This is a key technical role supporting mission critical enterprise network security operations and IT services protection. This role will drive development using automation to new or existing security use cases to reduce the overall mean time to detect and respond to incidents.

With your proven experience, collaboratively lead our RBC technology and application partners to develop and implement mission critical cyber use cases for security monitoring supporting security operations and Security Operations Centre capabilities.

What will you do?

• Provide global accountability to provide technical and subject matter expertise supporting cyber uses cases developed from security systems and infrastructure for security monitoring.

• Work with RBC technology and/or application partners (Cybersecurity, Technology Infrastructure, SOC) to develop and strengthen use cases for continuous security monitoring.

• Develop runbooks for those use cases that align with security operations processes and streamline the incident investigation and response tasks.

• Work with Defensive Threat Operations Correlation Engineering to facilitate log ingestion and use case development in our SIEM platforms.

• Periodically review use case library, perform attestation on existing use cases, participate in tuning discussions/activities and provide improvement recommendations where necessary/possible.

• Develop and maintain lines of communication with various security groups, Security Operations Centre leadership and technology stakeholders

• Develop processes to support a maturing program

• Provide operational metrics and reports as needed

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• 2 to 5 years of industry experience.

• Experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCP)

• Intermediate experience with Python.

• Experience with building detections in SIEM.

• Experience with automation in SOAR.

• Educational background in IT, Engineering, Cybersecurity and/or equivalent relevant experience

• Demonstrated technical leadership ability

• In-depth understanding of Security Operations and Security Technologies, with previous experience working in a SOC environment

• Understanding of common exploitation techniques and awareness of new threats

• Strong analytical and complex problem-solving skills

• Expert understanding of SIEM technology and operations

• Strong Networking and Enterprise IT Infrastructure knowledge with TCP/IP packet level knowledge

Nice-to-have: 

• Certifications in information security (GCIH, GCSA, GPCS, GCTD, GCFR)

• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCP)

• Experience in working within a large, global financial services company.

• A good understanding of modern, cloud centric architectures and DevOps principles.

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

• A world-class training program in financial services

• Flexible work/life balance options

• Opportunities to do challenging work

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