Insider Threat Engineering Support Lead

Role Overview

Seeking an inquisitive, analytical, and hands-on Insider Threat Engineering Support Lead to join our Cybersecurity Operations & Engineering team. This role sits at the intersection of security engineering, data analytics, and behavioral threat hunting. Unlike traditional perimeter-focused cybersecurity roles, this position focuses on identifying, mitigating, and engineering detection controls around internal human-risk factors, anomalous behavioral patterns, and unauthorized data movement.

The ideal candidate blends an investigative mindset with engineering acumen to design, tune, and operationalize high-fidelity detections, proactively hunt across massive enterprise telemetry datasets, and continuously enhance our insider threat mitigation posture.

Key Responsibilities

Detection Engineering & Rule Optimization

• Develop, test, tune, and maintain behavioral analytics, hunt-based queries, and SIEM/data platform detection rules to identify insider threat vectors (e.g., data exfiltration, privilege abuse, unauthorized access).
• Translate investigative insights and newly identified threat patterns into automated, resilient detection logic.
• Monitor detection effectiveness, minimizing false positives while maximizing coverage against known insider attack methodologies.

Proactive Threat Hunting & Analytics

• Conduct hypothesis-driven threat hunting across multi-source log repositories, behavioral baselines, and disparate telemetry data to uncover undetected threats.
• Analyze and troubleshoot large, complex datasets to establish normal baseline activity and isolate anomalies.
• Partner with incident response and insider threat analysts to operationalize hunt findings into long-term defensive safeguards.

Engineering Support & Process Improvement

• Support the end-to-end detection engineering lifecycle, incorporating Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices, version control, and comprehensive technical documentation.
• Participate in testing, validation, and continuous delivery of detection artifacts.
• Manage priorities autonomously in a fast-paced environment, driving deliverables from concept through deployment.

Candidate Qualifications & Requirements

Desired Skills & Experience

• Domain Knowledge: Strong understanding of core Cybersecurity and Insider Threat concepts, specifically the behavioral, access, and human-centric risk models that distinguish insider threats from external attacks.
• Query & Detection Engineering: 6+ years of experience constructing, tuning, and executing complex queries within SIEM, data lake, or log analytics platforms (e.g., Splunk, KQL/Sentinel, Elastic, SQL, Snowflake).
• Threat Hunting: Demonstrated ability to perform proactive, hypothesis-based threat hunting to identify stealthy, anomalous, or policy-violating activity across enterprise log sources.
• Data Analysis & Troubleshooting: Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to navigate, sanitize, query, and troubleshoot high-volume, heterogeneous datasets.
• Self-Directed Execution: Demonstrated capability to independently manage workload, prioritize high-impact initiatives, and deliver results with minimal supervision.

Behavioral Attributes & Core Competencies

• Inquisitive & Investigative Mindset: High natural curiosity and an "outside-the-box" analytical approach to solving ambiguous problems and tracing subtle anomalies.
• Hybrid Engineering & Investigation Focus: Ability to view telemetry through both an investigator's analytical lens and a software/security engineer’s systems-building perspective.
• Effective Communication: Ability to articulate complex data findings and engineering designs clearly to technical peers and non-technical stakeholders alike.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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