Threat Defence Manager

Salt is partnering with the leading provider of cloud and IT infrastructure services, specializing in managed cloud solutions and digital transformation for enterprise clients based in Abu Dhabi.

As an urgent opening, they are looking for a Threat Defence Specialist who will be responsible for understanding the evolving threat landscape, hunting for threats, creating new detections, refining existing ones, and ensuring proper security orchestration.

Responsibilities:

• Engage in threat hunting within customer environments to detect attackers or remnants of their activity. Develop detection logic customized for the corporate threat landscape using industry-specific intelligence and developed user cases
• Design, develop, and implement effective security use cases and rules within the SIEM system
• Operationalize Indicators of Compromise from intelligence feeds by developing, testing, and deploying monitoring and alerting rules into SIEM
• Collaborate closely with Security Engineering to onboard new data sources and work with Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) personnel to devise relevant use cases across various client networks
• Coordinate with technical architects to identify and recommend internal and external data sources for enhancing threat detection logic
• Collaborate effectively with incident response and threat intelligence functions to design, develop, and automate detection content

Essential skills/experience:

• 7+ years of experience in Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Digital Forensics or Malware Analysis.
• Experience in detection engineering, proactive and reactive threat hunt techniques, security automation, incident response, digital forensics
• Relevant professional certifications in information technology or cloud security e.g. SANS 508 (GCFA), SEC504 (GCIH) or equivalent.
• In depth understanding of industry standard threat frameworks (Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK).

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.