Senior Detection Engineer

Job description

Responsibilities Peraton is currently seeking an experienced Senior Detection Engineer to become part of our Federal Strategic Cyber Group. Location: Rosslyn, VA and a secondary at Beltsville, MD. Schedule: Monday - Friday, 08:00-16:00 (8:00 AM - 4:00PM). In this role, you will: - Perform advanced custom development and implementation of cybersecurity alerts - Develop, configure, and tune cyber security tools, alerts, and response capabilities - Integrate security alerts and process workflows into SOAR and SIEM systems - Automate and optimize security alert workflows to enhance threat response capabilities and enhance efficiency throughout the Incident Response lifecycle - Analyze systems and environments to determine necessary logging and alerting to optimize cyber security monitoring in an ever-changing cyber threat landscape - Provide technical expertise for Splunk, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, and similar coding languages - Support the security operations center through security development - Support cross team collaboration efforts to enhance the customer’s defense against advanced cyber adversaries - Implement cyber monitoring, analysis, and response capabilities within ou...