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Junior Detection Engineer

Junior Detection Engineer

Location

Remote

Headquarter

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Deadline

March 13, 2024 at 8:00:00 AM

Salary

€1100+

Job Type

Full-time

Why Gegidze?

Gegidze - Digital Agency with the Georgian Character, designed to develop and build great brands. We help them innovate and outperform in the modern world.

Since the agency’s foundation in 2017, we successfully realized more than 80 projects, earned $ 20M+ for our customers, and built remote teams of 200+ developers, marketers and designers in Georgia for European Startups and SMBs. At our agency with 5 locations in Tbilisi, Berlin, Dublin, Warsaw and Tallinn, we work with great passion every day to inspire our customers and solve various problems in marketing, design, tech & HR.

About the project

Currently, we are looking for a top Junior Detection Engineer for our key client, which is a South African based company, which is a leading IT security partner renowned for its blend of top-tier products, astute business acumen, and dynamic network management solutions. Specializing in the unique challenges of the South African market, company offers bespoke security solutions that strike a balance between robust protection and cost-effectiveness. Their focus on individualized security solutions shields businesses from the evolving threats of the Internet, allowing their clients to concentrate on their core operations.
Currently we are looking for a Junior Detection Engineer for our client’s detection engineering team to focus on improving their MDR detection capability, which ultimately helps company to improve their clients, who range from large SMB’s to multi-national organisations, cyber security.

Your duties

As a Junior Detection Engineer, you will be responsible for:

- Maintaining detectors by testing, updating, and improving documentation of detectors.
- Keeping abreast with new threats and threat research to understand new detection opportunities.
- Compiling reports and performing trend analysis to help make smart decisions on detectors and workflows for response.
- Communicating and collaborating with the Incident Response team to understand any new challenges and communicate new detector changes.
- Streamlining response workflows by working with the response team to design new automations and enrichment.
- Working with the Response team and reviewing “noisy” alerts for tuning.
- Reviewing alert and case investigations to ensure they are of high quality, using the company’s QC system.
- Performing Incident response in AD HOC situations.

Requirements

- At least 1.5 years of experience in System and/or Network Administration.
- Knowledge of the latest cyber threats and where to find threat information on the Internet.
- Knowledge of Detection Engineering, BlueTeam concepts and Cyber Defence.
- The desire and willingness to learn cyber security, inquisitive in nature and a desire to find answers.
- Strong analytical skills, and the ability to understand how to visualise data and draw conclusions.
- English language upper intermediate (B2) is a must

Nice to have:

- Experience with SIEM platforms, Elastic / Opensearch.
- Knowledge of SIGMA

Benefits

Join us

If that sounds just like you, simply apply with your CV: talent@gegidze.com or press the button “Apply Now.”

Our hiring process:

After you hit the button “Apply Now” and upload the resume, our HR team will review your profile.
If the skills and experiences mentioned in your resume match the requirements, you will have:
1. Quick introduction call with our HR team
2. Technical/soft skill interview with client
3. Introduction call with the end client

After receiving positive feedback from the client we will circulate the job offer to you.
Wish you good luck and hope to see you in our incredible team of top digital talents!

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