Job Specifications
About the role
As a Cyber Security Detection Engineer, you will lead the development, implementation, and
continuous improvement of Tesco's cyber security detection capability. You will be required
to understand the changing threat landscape, see opportunities for improvement in existing
detections, establish new detections, and ensure appropriate detection coverage for the
organisation. You will work closely with multiple teams, including security operations,
engineering, and risk & compliance, in a fast paced and agile environment.
You will be responsible for
Responsible for developing and driving the cyber security detection capability both day-to-day and strategically for the Tesco Group. You are expected to seek out effective and comprehensive detection logic and capability, ensuring detections are robust and not brittle, thoroughly tested, and that alerts and supporting information is available to and understood by operational cyber security teams.
You are expected to put the needs of operational teams and incident responders at the centre of your development work, ensuring detections and alerts are relevant, of value, and have practical response steps. You will need to ensure detection capability is fit for both on-premises, private and public cloud environments, working at significant scale, and across a diverse range of asset types.
In addition, you may provide support during cyber security incidents, participate in threat hunts, and work with other security teams to deliver automation and standardisation to improve efficiency and response.
You will need
Security Engineering Skills
Threat Led:
• Ability to assess and validate information from various sources on cyber and
informational security threats to business
• Ability to analyse and identify significance of processed intelligence to identify trends,
threat actor TTPs and potential capabilities.
• Ability to break down and translate information into tangible actionable data.
Secure & Test-Driven Engineering
• Understanding of cyber security threat frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, Lockheed
Martin Killchain etc.
• Ability to specify/implement processes to maintain required level of security for a
component/product/system during its lifecycle.
• Proficient at detection development lifecycle covering all reasonable positive and
negative test cases.
• Ability to conducts code reviews of existing content and processes to identify and
enhance or mitigate security issues.
• Contribute to security evaluation of or testing of threat/vulnerabilities faced by
systems.
• Applies recognised evaluation/testing methodologies, tools and techniques to
signature development / reviews, suggesting new ones where appropriate.
Research:
• Ability to quantify and define research goals to generate worthwhile relevant detection
ideas for further testing and exploration.
• Ability to summarise findings or technical information to be disseminated with wider
teams, factoring in business knowledge and summaries.
Experience relevant for this role:
• An ability to develop queries and enable robust detection of threats.
• Working knowledge of Windows, macOS or Linux operating systems
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Understanding of modern attacker TTPs
• Translate threat intelligence into actionable detection logic.
• Solid grasp of detection technologies
• A broad understanding of security concepts; an interest and passion for cyber security
• An analytical approach; ability in problem solving and comfortable working on
production systems at scale.
• Query languages such as KQL or SPL
• Experience developing and maintaining basic automation scripts (e.g., Bash, Python,
Batch, PowerShell etc.)
Desirable Skills and Experience:
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure, cloud security and cloud APIs a plus
• Knowledge of attacker tools and evasion techniques within offensive engineering
• Working knowledge of at least one major programming language, including scripting
languages like Python and PowerShell
• Experience of developing detections as code
Whats in it for you?
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
Private medical insurance
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
About Us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers,
About the Company
One of the world’s largest retailers of consumer goods from food to fashion. Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day in our stores and online is at the heart of everything we do.
Founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen using the £30 he received on leaving the Royal Flying Corp, we’ve come a long way from his small market stall in East London. Today over 400,000 colleagues work across our stores, office, distribution and customer engagement centres in the UK, Europe and Asia.
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