Team Lead, MDR Core

Ready to further your career in the fast-paced, exciting world of cyber security?

Arctic Wolf, with its unicorn valuation, is the leader in security operations in an exciting and fast-growing industry—cybersecurity. We have won countless awards for our excellence in security operations and remain dedicated to providing an industry-leading customer and employee experience.

Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk. We’re looking for a Senior Detection Developer to be part of making this happen.  

A Team Lead in Detection Development has a clear history of successful contribution to professional detection development projects and leading teams. They are driven, curious, and results oriented. They are able to manage competing priorities for the team as they relate to improving existing our existing codebase of detections and constantly challenge the status quo. With additional experience and exposure to leadership, advanced detection development patterns, and projects, they are capable of becoming a Manager within 2 years.

Basic Qualifications

• 3 or more years of professional experience as a Detection Developer

• Experience consists of projects contributing in either Python or YAML

• OS Specific Telemetry (Windows Security/Sysmon logs, Linux)

• Windows PowerShell Monitoring

• SIEM Detections

• EDR detections/signatures

• Sigma and Yara Rules

• Development of anomaly and behavioral based detections

• Tuning and optimization of detections for all the above

• Professional certifications in Security and/or Cloud are required (i.e. CISSP, GNFA, GCFA, GCFE, GREM).

• Experience consists of leading a team of 3 or more Detection Developers while contributing code independently

• Experience leading Agile development teams, preferably with formal Agile training

• Preferably located in Canada or the U.S.

• Nice to have: A clear history of technical influence (public conference talks, papers, etc)

• Nice to have: A clear history of learning and skills development. Regularly helps detection developers develop their skills in a variety of ways.

• Nice to have: B.Sc. in Computer Science

• Nice to have: Located in the Eastern Time Zone

About the role

You’ll be working as a Team Lead on our Detection Operations Team, responsible for ensuring quality and scale of our team, our detection base and presenting actionable detections to our Security Services teams and customers.

Some of your day-to-day responsibilities will be:

Team Leadership (25%)

• Managing day-to-day activities of the team and assigning tasks based on priority.

• Providing direction, clarity, and removing obstacles for team members.

• Acting as guide and become actively involved, as required, to meet timelines and resolve problems.

• Mentoring each team member; help them grow their technical and leadership skills.  

• Make sure each team is clear on the objectives and goals they are striving to achieve. 

• Work with team members to deliver on quarterly and yearly objectives.

Individual Contribution (75%)

• Developing and maintaining Python and YAML-based detections, software, and systems.

• Research and develop expertise in the various threat surfaces and telemetry available for them

• Propose coverage and efficacy improvements to the detection surface

• Work with team members to develop novel detections and continuously tune existing ones

• Build runbooks, reports and supporting material for detection surfaces

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and implement detections.

• Writing clean, efficient, and reusable code in Python.

• Conducting code reviews and providing constructive feedback to ensure code quality and maintainability.

• Debugging and fixing issues in existing Python codebases.

• Optimizing application performance and ensuring scalability.

• Participate in the full software development life cycle, building well-designed, testable, efficient, secure code.

• Understand the product and how Security Services delivers the service.

• Develop professional expertise, apply company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues. Determine a course of action based on guidelines, and modify processes and methods as required.

• Continuously learning and adopting best practices for code quality, software development methodologies, and programming principl