Junior Blue Team Engineer

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About Picus
Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing, and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort.
The Picus Security Validation Platform easily reaches across on-prem environments, hybrid clouds and endpoints coupled with Numi AI to provide exposure validation. 
The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus delivers award-winning threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing, offering a 95% recommendation in Gartner Peer Review.
About The Role
If you’re a results-driven person with an entrepreneurial mindset, who takes the initiative and thrives in a dynamic environment, then this is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing cyber security company. We are looking for a smart and driven leader to have a direct impact on the future of our business by helping to influence global adoption of our award-winning Picus Security Validation Platform.

What You'll Do

• Analyze, understand, and leverage public research on emerging cyber threats, detection methods and tools.
• Research and apply Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) methodologies by conducting thorough studies on best practices, then implement and continuously refine them to proactively identify, expose, and mitigate vulnerabilities in response to evolving threats.
• Research and develop hardening methodologies for cybersecurity defenses by analyzing best practices and frameworks.
• Deploy, configure, and manage endpoint security technologies, including XDR, EDR, SIEM, EPP solutions, to evaluate their response to Picus Attack Scenarios.
• Design and develop both open-source and vendor-based threat detection scenarios.
• Utilize AI and data analysis techniques to create innovative cybersecurity solutions that enhance threat detection and response capabilities.
• Optimize detection rules to improve the accuracy and efficiency of threat detection, reducing false positives while enhancing the ability to identify cyber threats.
• Develop and maintain tools to support the Detection Development Life Cycle.
• Conduct research on new threat hunting methodologies, tools, and technologies to stay ahead of evolving threats.
• Onboard, configure, and maintain detection and hunting products (e.g., SIEM, EDR) to enhance security operations.
• Optimize internal SOC technologies and processes to improve threat detection and response capabilities.
• Utilize threat intelligence services and malware sandboxes to effectively hunt for and analyze emerging malware threats.
• Collaborate with Picus Labs Red Team for purple teaming exercises to improve defenses.
• Partner with engineering teams to contribute to the development and refinement of new product features.

What You Have

• Experience with security monitoring, incident detection, and response in enterprise environments.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automating tasks and improving processes.
• Strong threat detection and hunting knowledge.
• Strong SIGMA and YARA rule development knowledge.
• Hands-on experience in administering and using network security, SIEM and EDR technologies.
• Knowledge of Mitre ATT&CK framework and threat intelligence services.
• Community contribution to defensive knowledge will be a plus. (Open source projects, etc.)
• A proactive mindset with a continuous learning attitude towards new security technologies and threats.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively interact with technical and non-technical teams.
• Proficiency in written English.