Cybersecurity Threat Detection and Response Engineer

Were looking for a Cybersecurity Threat Detection & Response Engineer to lead and grow this critical function as part of our expanding security team. This role will focus on evolving Ponteras detection engineering, incident response, and security automation capabilities to support our growing organization and evolving threat landscape.

Youll join a mature and collaborative environment where foundational work has already been laid, and you'll have the opportunity to advance how we detect, investigate, and respond to threats - with the support of strong cross-functional partnerships and best-in-class tools.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Detection Engineering
Develop, tune, and maintain detection rules, correlation logic, and alerting workflows within our SIEM.
Integrate high-quality telemetry from cloud environments, infrastructure, SaaS applications, and internal systems.
Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps to improve visibility, signal-to-noise ratio, and logging coverage.
Automation & Enrichment
Design and implement enrichment and response automation (e.g., SOAR platforms, serverless functions).
Explore and integrate LLM-based agents or AI-enhanced triage/classification tools where practical.
Continuously improve response playbooks, integrations, and automation pipelines.
Incident Response Leadership
Serve as the operational lead for security incident response, from triage through resolution and post-incident review.
Maintain and evolve IR runbooks; lead tabletop exercises to strengthen organizational readiness.
Coordinate investigations across Security, Engineering, GRC, IT, and Legal as needed.
Metrics & Reporting
Own and continuously improve dashboards and reporting that track key detection and response KPIs (e.g., MTTR, detection coverage, false positive rates).
Deliver data-driven insights to security and engineering leadership to inform strategy and operational improvements.
Case Management
Take responsibility for the case management lifecycle across detection, triage, and incident handling.
Ensure the incident handling process is tightly integrated with automation, documentation standards, and relevant security tooling.
Evaluate opportunities to enhance case tracking infrastructure in alignment with program growth and maturity.
Collaboration & Growth
Partner cross-functionally with teams in Engineering, DevOps, IT, Privacy, and GRC.
Support ongoing vendor relationships and bring a continuous improvement mindset to tooling and processes.