SOC Detection Engineer – Senior

About the Position

SOC Detection Engineer – Senior

SOFTSWISS is hiring a Senior SOC Detection Engineer to join our Security Operations team. We are seeking a hands-on security professional to help build and develop our detection engineering function, strengthening the company’s ability to identify, investigate, and respond to security threats across Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain detection and correlation rules in Splunk or a similar SIEM.
• Translate incident investigations, threat hunting, and attack research into effective detections.
• Analyze false positives, false negatives, and detection gaps.
• Improve detection coverage and map detections to MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
• Develop and optimize SPL queries, dashboards, reports, and risk-based detections.
• Define requirements for logging, parsing, normalization, enrichment, and data quality.
• Develop monitoring and health checks for detection rules and data sources.
• Contribute to automated detection testing, synthetic events, telemetry replay, and CI/CD workflows.
• Participate in incident investigations, threat hunting, purple team exercises, and attack emulation.
• Collaborate with SOC, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams.
• Document detection logic, data sources, dependencies, limitations, and expected behavior.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience in SOC, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, Incident Response, or a related field.
• Deep understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, common attack techniques, and detection methodologies.
• Strong proficiency in Splunk SPL or another enterprise SIEM platform.
• Experience developing complex queries, correlations, dashboards, and reports.
• Practical experience tuning detections and managing exceptions and allowlists.
• Ability to define and evaluate logging and telemetry requirements.
• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, or Bash for automation.
• Experience with Git, code reviews, APIs, and basic CI/CD practices.
• Understanding of Windows and Linux security monitoring.
• Ability to independently investigate complex problems and drive solutions to completion.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Splunk Enterprise Security, CIM, data models, macros, and lookups.
• Experience with Sysmon, Windows security auditing, Active Directory, auditd, osquery, Tetragon, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Experience with YARA, CALDERA, Shuffle, or other security automation and attack emulation tools.
• Experience building detection quality metrics and automated validation frameworks.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Participation in security research, conferences, or the broader security community.

We Offer

• Private health insurance
• Sports benefits
• Comprehensive Mental Health Program
• Free English lessons (online)
• Local language courses
• Paid time off
• Maternity leave support
• Referral program rewards
• Upskilling, internal workshops, and participation in professional conferences and corporate events

About the Company

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