Security Operations Engineer (Threat Hunting & EDR)

8 years

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Job Type

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Job Description

Security Operations Engineer

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead SOC shifts, manage alert queues, and ensure SLA compliance.
  • Investigate and respond to advanced threats using

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

    and

    Microsoft Sentinel

    .
  • Perform

    hypothesis-driven threat hunts

    aligned to

    MITRE ATTCK

    .
  • Develop, tune, and maintain detections using

    KQL

    and EDR policies.
  • Build dashboards, correlation rules, and automation to reduce MTTD/MTTR.
  • Document incidents, root cause analysis, and detection improvements.
  • Report threat trends and hunting outcomes to stakeholders.

Required Experience

  • 5–8 years

    in Security Operations / SOC / Threat Hunting.
  • Hands-on experience with

    Microsoft Sentinel

    and

    Defender for Endpoint

    .
  • Experience in Tier-2/Tier-3 SOC investigations or shift leadership.
  • Strong knowledge of

    MITRE ATT&CK

    and adversary TTPs.

Nice to Have

  • SOAR automation (Sentinel), PowerShell or Python.
  • Cloud security monitoring (Azure / M365).
  • Certifications:

    SC-200, SC-300, Security+, CySA+, GCIA/GCIH

    .

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel | Microsoft Defender for Endpoint | MITRE ATT&CK

threat hunting, detection engineering, and improving SOC maturity

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