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RampRampNew York, NY

Senior Detection Engineer, Federal

Senior Detection Engineer responds to security incidents, triages alerts, tunes runbooks, and builds automation for threat detection in federal environments. Requires 3-4 years IT experience, SOC background, and log analysis tools like ELK/Datadog.

160k – 221k/yr
Hybrid3+ YOESecurity Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Respond and assist with security requests and incidents submitted by Ramp team members
  • Review logging, alerting, and audit sources to identify potential security incidents and perform initial triage
  • Contribute to the creation, upkeep, and tuning of runbooks and security alerts
  • Work closely with Ramp Security Engineers to improve security alerting and automated remediation
  • Utilize log ingestion platform for security analytics and identification of attacker tactics, techniques, and patterns
  • Design and implement automation to detect and respond to threats

What You Need

  • 3-4 years of information technology experience or equivalent
  • Working experience in information security, especially on a C/SIRT, CERT, CSIRC, or SOC
  • Experience with query-based log management solutions (ELK, Datadog, Panther, etc.)
  • Strong deductive reasoning and critical thinking skills
  • Ability to communicate complex security issues clearly
  • Strong written communication skills

Nice to Haves

  • Prior experience working with government entities or in highly regulated environments
  • Security certifications such as CompTIA Security+, Network+, etc.
  • Experience with workflow automation tooling (Tines, Swimlane, etc.)

Skills

ElkDatadogPantherTinesSwimlaneSIEMSecurity Incident ResponseSocLog ManagementThreat Detection
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