Rapid7 Senior Detection Operations Engineer 

Czechia, Prague, Prague 

183192469

About the Role

As a Senior Detection Operations engineer, you will serve as t

In addition, you will learn from IR engagements, SOC incidents, and a variety of other sources and apply that knowledge to inform new detections for use across our customer base, while assisting more junior teammates.

In this role, you will:

• Utilize Rapid7’s world-class software and threat intelligence to evaluate and improve the current InsightIDR detection library, including coordinating third-party integration projects.

• Collaborate closely with SOC Analysts, the Data Science team, Incident Response (IR) Consultants, Customer Advisors, and security researchers.

• Conduct research on attacker behaviors and techniques using information gathered from IR engagements, other incidents and malicious activity discovered through various telemetry sources.

• Conduct detection testing in a controlled environment.

• Collaborate with Rapid7’s Emergent Threat Response (ETR) team to ensure Rapid7 has detection coverage during large scale exploitation of vulnerabilities from recently disclosed zero days or CVEs.

• Utilize expert level skills in multiple security domains to build rules that detect or prevent evil across network, endpoint and cloud services.

The skills you’ll bring include:

• 5+ years as a SOC Analyst/Incident Responder/Offensive security practice experience OR 4+ years of cyber threat intelligence/research/detection engineering experience.

• Experience using industry Threat Intelligence Platforms.

• Experience writing detections using Yara/Suricata/Sigma or similar.

• Experience with hands-on analysis of forensic artifacts and/or malware samples

• Conduct research using various OSINT methods.

• A solid understanding of how threat actors utilize tactics such as lateral movement, privilege escalation, defense evasion, persistence, command and control, and exfiltration.

• Effective collaboration between different teams.

• Innovative problem solving mindset.

• Strong ability to perform research (search for, organize, and evaluate information).

• Strong written and verbal skills.