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Cyber Defense Detection Engineer

Google
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Remote$112k - $161kPosted 1w ago

About the role

Cyber Defense Detection Engineer role within Google Cloud's Mandiant team, focused on helping clients prepare for, mitigate, and respond to cyber security threats, developing SIEM use cases, and guiding containment and remediation efforts.

Responsibilities

  • Identify issues in customer Cyber Defense Centers and formulate strategies for improvement, plan implementation of improvements, and execute/oversee plans to completion.
  • Create and modify Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) use cases and detection logic, leveraging cyber threat intelligence, written in technology-specific query language or Sigma open signature format.
  • Provide expertise for SIEM and other SOC technologies that assist in incident response.
  • Measure and improve alert fidelity through metrics creation, tracking, responding to tuning requests, implementing incident-specific detection logic, etc.
  • Engage and collaborate with client stakeholders and other groups within the customer environment to drive resolution for security issues.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3 years of experience with detection tuning and creation leveraging various security tools (e.g., SIEM, EDR, or NDR tools).
  • Experience with content engineering inside SIEM platforms (e.g., rule creation, advanced correlation searching, etc).
  • Experience with scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell and Python).
  • Ability to travel up to 20%.

Skills

Required:Detection tuningSIEM content engineeringScripting
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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