Senior Associate, Cyber Threat Detection

Overview

Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Senior Associate, Cyber Threat Detection

Capital One’s CyberOrganization is a fast-paced, dynamic environment committed to enabling and securing the business. Our Operations & Intelligence division is searching for an experienced Senior Associateto contribute to our Threat Detection team.  In this role, you will be responsible for solving hard problems using cutting edge technology in the areas of engineering, alert development, and monitoring.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with broader Cyber Operations teams to prioritize and operationalize detective measures of known or tested gaps in coverage leveraging MITRE ATT&CK

• Develop, implement, and test alerts that CSOC and Insider threat will triage per the Incident Response plan

• Perform retrospective analysis of alerts to determine fidelity

• Peer-review colleagues’ alert development proposals

• Periodic review of coverage heatmap to understand gaps in coverage

• Perform reviews of alert catalog to propose changes to existing alerts or create new ones

• Collaborate with CSOC to maintain, migrate, or decommission Cyber alerts

• Collaborate with Cyber Log management to onboard new data sources or specific event IDs, needed to develop detective use cases

• Experience with Regular expression

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification

• At least 1.5 years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology

• At least 1 year of experience in Security Operations Center (SOC) 

• At least 1 year of experience working with Linux, Unix, or Windows operating systems

• At least 1 year of experience with public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• 2+ years of experience in working on a Threat Detection team

• 2+ years of experience working with cyber threat intelligence and the MITRE ATT&CK framework

• 2+ years of SQL or Python experience

• 1+ years of experience leading a project

• 1+ years of experience working with Detection-as-Code (DaC) principles

• Security+, CEH, CISSP, OSCP, OSCE, GCTD, AWS Security Specialty, or Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization).

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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