Senior Security Researcher - Identity - Security Automation (Cortex)

Required Senior Security Researcher - Identity - Security Automation (Cortex)
Your Career
Are you passionate about advancing automation in identity security? Do you thrive at the intersection of research, innovation, and large-scale impact? As a Senior Security Researcher, you will drive the design of autonomous response strategies to counter identity-based threats, misconfigurations, and abuse scenarios. Your research will directly shape the Cortex platforms ability to remediate identity-driven attacks, ensuring effective, safe, and scalable automation for our customers. You will collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers to deliver on the vision of the Autonomous SOC.
Your Impact:
Lead the design and implementation of robust, testable, and safe remediation playbooks for identity-related threats (e.g., privilege escalation, credential abuse, lateral movement, IAM misconfigurations).
Conduct deep research on adversary TTPs targeting identity systems and translate insights

דרישות:

Extensive background in identity security, including areas such as Active Directory, Azure AD, SSO, federation protocols, and identity lifecycle management.
Proven expertise in at least one of the following: incident response, red teaming, advanced detection research, or identity threat hunting.
Hands-on experience with cloud identity platforms and services (e.g., AWS IAM, Azure AD, GCP IAM) and their security controls.
Proficiency in Python, with practical experience building security automations, detection rules, or SOAR playbooks.
Experience using SQL or other query languages for large-scale data analysis to support research and validation of remediation approaches.
Strong analytical mindset, independent thinking, and proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration.
Advantages:
Experience with big data platforms (e.g., GCP BigQuery, AWS Athena, Snowflake) to analyze large-scale identity telemetry.
Familiarity with Cortex XSIAM, XDR, SOAR, or similar platforms that integrate d