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Cyber Defense Detection Engineer

Google· Mandiant, Google Cloud
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Remote$112k - $161kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Cyber Defense Detection Engineer position with Mandiant, Google Cloud. Focus on helping clients prepare to mitigate and respond to cyber security threats, develop containment/remediation plans, and serve as a technical advocate for information security requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Identify challenges in customer Cyber Defense Centers and formulate strategies for improvement, plan implementation of improvements, and execute/oversee plans to completion.
  • Create and modify 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 a 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% of the time as needed.

Skills

Required:SIEMScripting (PowerShell, Python)Content engineering

Benefits

  • Learn more about benefits at Google (URL provided in description).
  • Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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