Performance Technologies S.A.

Threat Detection Engineer

Performance Technologies S.A.

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Athens • Greece

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Tech Stack

DNSFirewalls

About the role

  • Conduct threat detection, incident handling and hunting activities by leveraging security best practices and current detection/response platforms.
  • Proactively threat hunt and identify misconfigurations within a SIEM solution. Additionally, be able to provide strategic recommendations and assist in guiding the customer to resolution.
  • Develop use cases and create threat detection logic, rules, and alerting in SIEM for response by the Security Operations team.
  • Contributing to the management of playbooks in our SOAR solution.
  • Identify gaps in log collection, signatures, and indicators of compromise (IOC) visibility. Then work with customer success team and engineering to improve detection capabilities.
  • Identify advanced malicious activity that has evaded traditional security monitoring capability.
  • Assist customers with requests to help integrate the SIEM into their environment and workflows.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field
  • 3+ years’ experience with SIEM, EDR, XDR, SOAR, and NDR
  • Experience in security operations, threat detection, incident response, or security engineering. Prior consulting or advisory experience preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of endpoint detection, alerting, and content tuning
  • Solid understanding of networks, protocols, and security tools (IPS, IDS, HIPS, firewalls)
  • Hands-on SOC experience as an analyst or security engineer
  • Experience writing SIEM rules/queries and analyzing malicious network traffic
  • Ability to gather threat intelligence and identify IoCs across host and network
  • Familiarity with common log sources (EDR, syslog, Windows Event Logs, DNS, firewall, Office 365, etc.)
  • Relevant certifications (GIAC, ISC2, CompTIA, Microsoft, IBM) preferred
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work in dynamic environments
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
SIEMEDRXDRSOARNDRthreat detectionincident responsesecurity engineeringlog collectionthreat intelligence
Soft Skills
strong communication skillsability to work in dynamic environments
Certifications
GIACISC2CompTIAMicrosoftIBM