Detection & Mitigation Engineer
Analyzes attacker tactics, campaigns, and platform abuse in real time while building detection and mitigation capabilities. The role requires experience with security analysis, threat intelligence, SQL, and Python or other scripting.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Identify, track, and mitigate sophisticated threats and abuse across Cloudflare’s platform in real time.
- Analyze attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) across evolving cyber attacks.
- Develop detection rules and innovative ways to present and interact with security insights.
- Track and analyze cyber campaigns using technical indicators of compromise (IOCs).
- Collaborate with team members and communicate actionable threat intelligence to technical and executive stakeholders.
- Synthesize technical information and document it through graphical and verbal representations.
Requirements and Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with data analysis, metadata analysis, or network traffic analysis.
- Passion for analyzing attacker TTPs at varying levels.
- Understanding of security trends related to platform threats and abuse.
- Experience using a comprehensive data analysis platform and configuring rules.
- Understanding of the cyber threat landscape, cyber intelligence, threat actors, and their techniques.
- Working knowledge of SQL and writing SQL queries.
- Python or other scripting experience.
Skills
Threat Detection, Data Analysis, Metadata Analysis, Network Traffic Analysis, Threat Intelligence, Indicators Of Compromise, SQL, Python, Rule Configuration
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