Senior Security Engineer - Detection & Response - EU/UK

1 month, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Cybersecurity
Marqeta

Marqeta

Marqeta is a pioneer in modern card issuing and payment solutions, offering businesses instant card issuance and payment processing through their innovative open API platform.

Diversified Financial Services
251-1K
Founded 2010

Description

  • Lead the incident response program and serve as incident commander during security events of all severity levels.
  • Monitor the environment for cyber threats and manage day-to-day security alerts through analysis, triage, and response.
  • Execute incident response activities aligned with the NIST Incident Response Lifecycle to detect, contain, eradicate, recover, and learn from incidents.
  • Maintain and improve the Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan, playbooks, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
  • Participate in 24x7x365 on-call rotations and support post-incident reviews.
  • Research threat intelligence sources and lead hypothesis-driven threat hunting in corporate and production environments.
  • Partner with Security Engineering and Security Solution Engineering to tune tools, improve detections, and deploy detections through CI/CD pipelines.
  • Design, develop, and maintain detection logic using a detections-as-code approach for SIEM and EDR platforms.
  • Map detection coverage to MITRE ATT&CK and identify gaps to prioritize detection development.
  • Coordinate with HR, law enforcement, response retainers, cyber insurers, Fraud, Compliance, and Risk teams during relevant security incidents.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in security operations with strong expertise in incident response, digital forensics, and threat hunting.
  • Experience serving as an incident commander or leading incident response workstreams under pressure.
  • Strong knowledge of the NIST Incident Response Lifecycle and incident response documentation and procedures.
  • Proficiency with security monitoring and forensic tools including EDR, SIEM, and SOAR systems.
  • Experience developing detections-as-code, including version control, CI/CD pipelines, and detection testing frameworks.
  • Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and its use for assessing detection coverage and mapping threat actor TTPs.
  • Experience contributing to post-incident reviews and implementing improvements from lessons learned.
  • Solid understanding of threat actor TTPs and the ability to apply threat intelligence to detection and response.
  • Experience tuning security solutions and building automation workflows to improve monitoring and response efficiency.
  • Working knowledge of AWS cloud services and securing cloud environments.
  • Experience in payment processing, fintech, or another highly regulated environment; familiarity with PCI DSS incident handling is a plus.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders during incidents and investigations.
  • Proven ability to work independently and judge when to engage teammates or escalate issues.
  • Willingness to mentor and support junior security professionals.
  • UK-based and able to work remotely anywhere in the UK or from the London office.

Benefits

  • Premium private medical and dental coverage.
  • Generous time off program with additional floating holiday days.
  • Retirement savings program with company contribution.
  • Equity in a publicly traded company plus an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • Monthly stipend to support remote work.
  • Annual development stipend for growth and development.
  • Family-forming benefits and up to 20 weeks of parental leave.
  • Wellbeing programs including Modern Health and HealthKick.

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