Applied Scientist, Research Engineer – Cybersecurity
Mistral AI
Open SourcePythonPyTorch
Security Engineer
Dedale (ex-Software Club)
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇫🇷 France
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Cyber SecurityFirewallsPythonSplunk
About the role
- Dedale: provider of strategic intelligence in the technology space, leveraging a global network of analysts and market professionals.
- Expand engineering team to integrate AI across platform and internal workflows; founding member of AI/automation efforts.
- Take ownership of established security infrastructure and lead its strategic evolution as the company scales.
- Work closely with leadership to make critical security decisions, optimize defenses, and drive security maturity to enterprise-grade.
- Security Operations & Intelligence: architect SIEM detection rules and analytics; administer EDR/XDR; champion Zero Trust and evolve VPN; enhance security stack and RMM.
- Infrastructure Evolution & Technical Leadership: provide secure workstation guidance; lead incident resolution and troubleshooting frameworks; integrate security by design.
- Strategic Analysis & Threat Intelligence: evaluate emerging security technologies; lead incident investigations and executive reporting; monitor emerging risks.
- Security Culture & Governance: design and deliver cybersecurity training; run phishing simulations and behavioral analysis; conduct penetration testing and internal security assessments.
- Opportunity to establish security foundation and advise leadership on business-critical security decisions.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of hands-on cybersecurity experience with demonstrated expertise in security operations and incident response
- Strong technical background in SIEM administration (Splunk, Elastic, QRadar, or similar platforms)
- Proven experience with EDR/XDR solutions (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender, or equivalent)
- Solid understanding of Zero Trust architecture principles and VPN technologies
- Network security fundamentals including firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and network segmentation
- Incident response experience with ability to investigate, analyze, and document security events
- Strong communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and leadership teams
- English proficiency is required
- Good knowledge of PowerShell is required
- Preferred: Penetration testing experience and familiarity with security assessment methodologies
- Preferred: Scripting abilities in Python, PowerShell, or Bash for security automation
- Personal attributes: Ownership mindset, strategic thinking, collaborative approach, continuous learner
