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Primary Objectives
Assist in creating, tuning, and maintaining detection rules across EDR and MDR platforms.
Monitor and validate alerts to ensure efficacy and minimize false positives.
Support senior engineers in the development of detection strategies and threat coverage.
Key responsibilities & Accountabilities
Build and modify detection rules for EDR tools (SentinelOne, etc.).
Analyze endpoint telemetry and alerts to identify gaps in coverage or high-fidelity detection opportunities.
Assist in triage of detection hits to understand alert quality and identify tuning needs.
Collaborate with senior detection engineers and threat intelligence teams to understand adversary behaviors and translate them into detection logic.
Conduct retrospective testing of new detections against historical data.
Document rule logic, associated TTPs, and use case rationale.
Participate in content validation exercises using benign or simulated malicious activity.
Stay current with emerging threats, tools, and attacker techniques.
Support operational tuning and the reduction of alert fatigue through logic refinement.
Contribute to knowledge sharing and internal documentation.
Skills & Ability
Bachelors degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field preferred (or equivalent hands-on experience).
0-2 years in a detection engineering, threat hunting, or SOC engineering role.
Previous experience in a MSSP or large enterprise SOC environment highly preferred.
Key job details
About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.
Virtusa is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive fair and impartial treatment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information or on any other basis which is protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government-issued ID during each interview. All candidates must be authorized to work in the USA.
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