Senior CSIRT Engingeer
Vultr · Full-time · Posted 2w ago
Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.
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The Vultr CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team) is looking for a Senior CSIRT Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Senior Manager of Incident Response. In this role, you will own the SIEM and EDR platforms by administering, optimizing, and building detection content. You will design and implement automation workflows using SOAR and develop integrations across our security tooling stack. You will also work alongside CSIRT Analysts to investigate security events, conduct threat hunts, and support incident response.
Key Responsibilities
Engineer, tune, and maintain detection rules and analytics in the SIEM and EDR platforms
Administer SIEM platform health, parser configuration, log source onboarding, and data pipeline optimization.
Design and build SOAR playbooks and automated response workflows to streamline triage, enrichment, and containment.
Develop and maintain integrations between security tools (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, SEG, TIP, DLP, ticketing)
Map detection coverage to MITRE ATT&CK to identify and close gaps
Identify and drive improvements to security visibility across the environment, including new log sources, enrichment opportunities, and telemetry gaps
Assist with investigation of security events, from alert through remediation
Assist with conducting threat hunts across organizational telemetry
Assist incident response with log analysis, artifact collection, and containment
Manage EDR platform coverage, sensor health, and policy configuration
Coordinate with Threat Intelligence to translate intel into deployed, actionable detection logic
Coordinate with Security Engineering on infrastructure integrations and log pipeline architecture
Document detection logic, automation workflows, and operational procedures
Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years experience in detection engineering, SIEM engineering, SOAR engineering, Security Operations, or a closely related role
Hands-on SIEM experience at an engineering level: rule authoring, parser development, log source integration, platform administration.
Experience building SOAR workflows and automated response playbooks.
Experience with EDR platforms, including policy configuration, telemetry analysis, and live response.
Demonstrated proficiency in PowerShell, Bash, Python, common Query Languages (FQL, KQL, EQL, LEQL, MQL, etc) and YARA, SIGMA, and CAPA rules.
Experience conducting security investigations, threat hunting, and incident response
Solid understanding of attack techniques and detection logic mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
Proficiency with Linux, MacOS, and Windows.
Nice to Have
Experience with cloud infrastructure environments
Familiarity with data loss prevention concepts and insider threat detection patterns
Certifications such as BTL1, BTL2, CCD, CCSP, CKA, CKS, CJDE, CISSP, GCDA, GCED, GCFA, GCIH, GCIA, GCTD, GNFA, etc.
Experience in SOC2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, or GDPR environments.
Compensation
$110,000 - $130,000
Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws.
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