Technical Lead

Join Maersks Groundbreaking Cyber Team: Redefining Incident Management & Response

Imagine a career where youre not just responding to security incidentsyoure revolutionising how its done. At Maersk one of the worlds largest and most respected logistics and shipping companies our Cyber team is pioneering a whole new approach to incident response. This isnt your typical SOC/CERT role: our combined fire team approach team is built on cuttingedge research and designed to drive change resilience and agility in ways the industry has never seen before.

Here youll be part of a dynamic team that works together to defend adapt and innovate with freedom and purpose. You wont just work on IR; youll help improve how its done. Dive into purple teaming create and refine worldclass detections shape change projects and push the boundaries of whats possibleall during the workday with no overnight shifts. Plus we champion continuous learning and growth through Capture the Flag (CTF) exercises and direct opportunities to bring your ideas to life.

Are you ready to be part of something transformational at Maersk and join a team thats setting a new standard in cybersecurity

• Join a WorldClass Cyber Team: Be part of an elite cyber operation at one of the globes most renowned logistics companies where your contributions truly make a difference.
• Multidimension role to Keep You Engaged: Unlike any traditional Incident Response type roles as a CERT analyst in Maersk youll engage in a variety of activities switching between defensive and offensive strategies conducting threat hunts and participating in innovative projects and research. This multifaceted approach ensures you wont experience burnout often associated with Incident Response.
• Continuous Learning & Dynamic Environment: Enjoy ongoing training and development in a fastpaced stimulating atmosphere. Participate in exciting CTF competitions alongside a team of experts pushing the boundaries of your knowledge and skills.
• Using cutting edge technologies: Tackle complex cyber incidents that require innovative solutions and utilizing the latest technologies available in the market. Your expertise will be crucial in addressing and mitigating sophisticated threats allowing you to hone your skills in a realworld environment.
• Innovate and Impact: Engage in innovative projects that allow you to bring your ideas to life help shape the future of cybersecurity while developing new capabilities that enhance our operations.

Key responsibilities

Incident Response and Leadership

• Act as the principal technical point of contact for all cyber security matters providing expertise to senior engineers and analysts.
• Act as the principal escalation point for the most complex and highrisk incidents driving resolution with precision and technical depth.
• Leading the cyber Incident Response process from a technical perspective and effective management of highpriority cyber incidents.
• Supporting the Incident Manager in driving postincident reviews
• Collaborate with global stakeholders in technical conversations to align response efforts and communicate effectively across technical audiences during incidents.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify gaps and continuously improve detection and response capabilities by creating and finetuning use cases developing automation and documenting processes and playbooks.
• Identifying lessons learned to improve future incident response and detection strategies.
• Contribute to development of detection mechanisms for sophisticated adversarial techniques based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

Purple Teaming and Advanced Testing

• Lead purple teaming exercises to integrate offensive and defensive strategies driving measurable improvements in detection and response.
• Architect and execute advanced attack simulations employing stateoftheart offensive tools and TTPs to test organizational resilience.
• Develop scenarios and artifacts that mimic realworld adversary groups for simulated testing.

Leadership and Team Development

• Mentor and coach a multidisciplinary team of analysts and investigators from a technical perspective.
• Lead CTF exercises or other similar initiatives to maintain continuously development of team skills.
• Champion new technologies and run coaching sessions to cross skill team members.
• Assist the leadership team with quality control and feedback reviews.
• Develop training materials and deliver training as part of the teams continuous development.
• Conduct and participate in Cyber Incident Response exercises.

Required experience & skills

Technical Skills and Knowledge:

• Incident Response:
  • Ability to conduct thorough host and network investigations to analyze and mitigate malicious activities using tools like Sysinternals Wireshark and TCPDump.
  • Strong log analysis skills across various platforms including OS web applications network devices and security tools (e.g. Antimalware EDR IPS IDS WAF email protection DLP routers load balancers and proxies).

• Cloud Security Knowledge:
  • Strong knowledge of cloud technologies and security (e.g. AWS Azure Alibaba Google Cloud) with skills in performing investigations log analysis and incident response.

• OT/IOT:
  • Understanding of OT environment and security is desirable but not essential.

• OS Security Knowledge:
  • Deep understanding of operating systems OSlevel exploits and cybersecurity for Windows and Linux including OS hardening techniques.
  • Ability to locate analyze and interpret forensic artifacts in Windows and Linux during investigations (e.g. registry event logs browser history memory dumps) using tools like Volatility and FTK.

• Application Security Knowledge:
  • Familiarity with applicationlevel attacks prevention methods hardening configurations and log analysis for applications like web applications and databases.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Bash Python PowerShell) for automation and process improvement.
  • Strong understanding of malware behavior persistence mechanisms and the ability to perform static and dynamic analysis including sandbox report interpretation and reverse engineering.

• Purple Teaming:
  • Knowledge of various cyber attacks simulations and identification methods.
  • Ability to lead purple teaming activities developing scenarios and engaging in both blue and red team activities. Proficiency with offensive tools like Metasploit Nmap Cobalt Strike Hydra John the Ripper Burp Suite Mimikatz Bloodhound and others.

• Threat Hunting:
  • Experience with advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs) mapped to the cyber chain.
  • Create hypotheses for proactive threat hunts and utilize tools like MISP and Jupyter Notebook for effective hunts.

• Process Development:
  • Develop playbooks and templates for incident management.
  • Identify and address gaps in current processes collaborate with other teams and build streamlined crossdepartmental processes.
• Automation Development:
  • Identify repetitive tasks and develop automation ideas.
  • Collaborate with automation teams to build capabilities using platforms like CrowdStrike Fusion AWS Lambda Azure Logic Apps XSOAR and Python scripts.
• Languages:
  • Query Languages: Proficiency in query languages like KQL and Logscale for investigations and log analysis.
  • Scripting Languages: Proven experience in scripting.
• Managing Relationships:
  • Develop and maintain key relationships with forensics security operations governance cyber defence engineering risk and compliance IT and other business units.

Soft Skills:

• Operations Management & Issue Resolution: Ensure smooth operations and continuity by proactively identifying and addressing operational issues team dynamics and inefficiencies in ticket handling.
• Report Writing: Ability to write reports that convey highly technical information whilst remaining accessible to a nontechnical audience (including at executive level).
• Communication: Exhibit excellent written/verbal communication skills with the ability to develop documentation and explain technical details in a concise manner.
• Mentorship: training and guiding junior team members promoting a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Critical Thinking Adaptability & ProblemSolving: Demonstrate strong analytical skills and flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and emerging cybersecurity threats while effectively solving problems.
• Time Management & Organization: Prioritize tasks efficiently and maintain organized documentation and processes to enhance team productivity.
• Teamwork & Positive Attitude: Foster a collaborative environment where team members feel supported practicing active listening motivating the team and maintaining a positive demeanor especially in highpressure situations.

Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in cybersecurity with a minimum of 3 years in a SOC or incident response leadership role.
• Relevant advanced certifications (e.g. GCIA GSEC CEH GCDA GCIH GCFA OSCP) are highly desirable but not essential.
• Proven selflearning abilities demonstrated through research GitHub projects bug hunting active participation in public cybersecurity forums or high scores on platforms like HTB Immersive Labs TryHackMe and SANS CTF.

Bonus Points:

• Knowledge of reverse engineering tools (disassemblers decompilers debuggers) and processes (unpacking malware reconstructing code logic etc).
• Lowlevel programming experience for example C Python Go and/or other languages desirable
• Assembly language knowledge is a plus.
• Experience in UserInterface/UserExperience (UI/UX) design and development.
• Development and deployment of dockerized applications.
• 3 years of experience in static and dynamic malicious code reverse engineering.
• Experience with multiple platforms (Linux MacOS mobile etc. is a plus.
• A background in intelligence is a plus.

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