Siemens Cybersecurity Defense is a global organization within Siemens consisting of regionally aligned teams across Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United States, Mexico, and China. The Cyber Defense Center offers security monitoring and threat detection services. The main objective of the CDC is to attempt to keep Siemens protected by preventing the materialization of threats and minimizing any adverse reputational and financial impact. The CDC portfolio enables identification and initial response to a range of threat actors, from commodities to nation state-backed actors. As the frontline resource for monitoring, detecting, alerting, hunting, and responding to threat actors – the CDC provides deep expertise in defending against a wide range of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures. The mission of the CDC OT is to proactively identify anomalies, respond and remediate Cybersecurity issues related to Operational Technology (OT), and products of Siemens.
Position Overview:
1. Cyber Defense Center OT Security Specialist will be part of the Cyber Defense Center for Europe (CDC), which is tasked with the primary mission to detect, analyze, investigate, and defend against sophisticated digital attacks.
2. In this position, the OT Security Specialist will report to the Operations Manager for the Europe and be part of the CDC OT team split between Europe and America. OT Security Specialist will work alongside peers and actively contribute to monitoring of productions environments, investigations, and provide input to different approaches to threat detection and response.
What are my responsibilities?
3. Review adversaries’ tactics, techniques, procedures, and threat data to develop use-cases for attack detection in the OT environments.
4. Support threat detection and hunting using multiple kinds of data sources and develop detection analytics.
5. Review threat data from various sources, develop custom signatures and use-cases for attack detection.
6. Engineer and tune detection rules.
7. Analyze network traffic from production environments.
8. Cooperate with the infrastructure team to further develop the Cyber Defense Center OT detection capabilities.
9. Maintain a next-generation log collection.
What do I need to qualify for this job?
10. University degree in computer science, IT security or related fields and cybersecurity certifications are a plus (GCIH, GCFA, GNFA, GCTI, GREM or similar).
11. '3+ years professional experience in security monitoring/security operations center environment (SOC), investigating security events, handling incidents, threats and/or vulnerabilities.
12. Good understanding of cyber security landscape and OT environments.
13. Strong understanding of enterprise detection & response, network traffic analysis and intrusion detection.
14. In-depth knowledge of operating system platforms and internals (Windows, Linux).
15. Working knowledge of SIEM platforms with experience in use case development.
16. .Development skills (scripting or high-level programming languages).
17. Proficient in written and spoken English combined with good interpersonal skills and attention to detail.
18. Other languages are a plus.
19. Team player, able to collaborate with others remotely.
20. Proactive, customer oriented, self-initiative and ability to work independently.
We are thrilled to have: A hybrid working model with a flexible working hours policy in order to promote work life balance. A budget for setting up a home office, health insurance, possibility to have a sabbatical leave or non-paid time off and a financial support program for your studies.You also have a medical center on the premises, sports groups, 2 days volunteering, access to e-learning platforms (Learnlight, Linkedin Learning and more) and discounts with partners.To all these benefits we add the possibility to work in a fresh, relaxed, and always motivated environment.
We’ve got quite a lot to offer. How about you? This role is open to be hired in Portugal. Please send your CV in English, otherwise your application will not be considered. Siemens is committed to creating a diverse environment and is glad to be an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool!
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