Insider Threat Engineer

Available Locations: Austin

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Insider Threat Tech Lead to join our dynamic and growing Security Threat Detection Response and Emulation team. This is a critical role that will be at the forefront of protecting our company from malicious and negligent insider activities. You will be responsible for leading the technical aspects of our Insider Threat program including investigations threat hunting and the development of cutting-edge detections and responses.

This role requires a unique blend of technical expertise regulatory and legal knowledge investigative skills and strong interpersonal communication. You will be a key point of contact and collaborator with our Privacy Legal GRC and HR teams ensuring that all activities are conducted with the utmost care in accordance with company policy and in compliance with legal and ethical standards.

What youll do

• Lead Insider Threat Digital Investigations:
  • • Conduct comprehensive technical investigations individually and partnering with our incident response teams into potential insider threat incidents including data exfiltration intellectual property theft unauthorized access and other malicious activities.
    • Knowledge and execution experience in collecting preserving and analyzing digital evidence from a variety of sources (e.g. endpoints network logs cloud services email etc.).
    • Document all investigative steps and findings in a clear concise and defensible manner.
    • Present findings to senior leadership and cross-functional partners (Legal HR Privacy) in a professional and objective manner.
    • Ensuring regulatory legal and privacy requirements are met through all
  • Insider Threat Hunting:
    • Proactively hunt for insider threats using a variety of security tools and data sources (e.g. SIEM DLP EDR UEBA).
    • Develop and execute threat hunting hypotheses based on emerging threats attack techniques and an understanding of our companys unique environment.
    • Correlate disparate data points to identify anomalous or suspicious user behaviors.
  • Detection & Response Improvement:
    • Collaborate closely with the Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) and Threat Detection teams to continuously enhance our insider threat detection capabilities.
    • Design develop and implement new rules alerts and use cases in our security tools to identify insider threat indicators.
    • Evaluate and recommend new technologies and processes to mature our Insider Threat program.
    • Develop and refine response playbooks for various insider threat scenarios.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
    • Serve as the primary technical liaison for the Insider Threat program building strong trusted relationships with Legal HR and Privacy teams.
    • Work in lockstep with these teams to ensure that investigations are conducted with sensitivity respect for employee privacy and within legal and ethical guidelines.
    • Provide technical expertise and guidance during policy development and incident response planning.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in a technical security role with at least 2 years focused on insider threat digital forensics or security investigations.
• Proven experience in conducting and leading complex technical investigations including the use of forensic tools (e.g. EnCase FTK X-Ways or open-source alternatives).
• Deep understanding of security technologies such as SIEM (e.g. Splunk Elastic) EDR (e.g. CrowdStrike SentinelOne) and UEBA like data sources.
• Strong scripting and programming skills (e.g. Python PowerShell) to automate tasks and analyze large datasets.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Experience working with legal and HR teams on sensitive employee-related matters.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications such as GCIH GCFA GCTI or similar.
• Experience with cloud-based security and investigations (e.g. AWS GCP Azure).
• Prior experience in a tech product or fast-paced startup environment.
• Knowledge of legal and regulatory frameworks related to data privacy and digital evidence (e.g. GDPR CCPA).
• Legal/Court evidence handling presentation and implementation of procedures

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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