Delta Dental
Senior Cyber Risk Engineer - Splunk & Incident Response
At Delta Dental, our strategy is only as strong as the people who execute it! We are hiring individuals that are not just right for today but also for our future. We have built a foundation of high-trust by treating all people with dignity, making and keeping commitments, and consistently striving to do the right thing. Our leaders optimistically share future possibilities to inspire and motivate others toward their full potential. We expect our employees to find ways to embrace positive change, be curious and challenge the status quo, and provide solutions to unmet problems. Joining Delta Dental means joining a culture focused on fostering development, building genuine connections, recognizing each other’s strengths and sharing in successes.
This position is responsible for the onboarding and ingestion of logs and events to support all aspects of security threat management for Delta Dental of California. This hands-on technical role shares responsibilities across the team in supporting cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, participating in incident response efforts, performing log analysis, and implementing threat protection across the enterprise.
The Senior Cyber Risk Engineer is responsible for building, maintaining, and improving the engine that powers large-scale security threat management capabilities that protect, detect, and respond to emerging threats and sophisticated attacks on enterprise networks. The person in this role onboards, ingests, reviews, and analyzes large and highly complex datasets and information to provide content, conclusions, and actionable recommendations to mitigate risk and stop attackers cold.
The candidate should have an applied and in-depth understanding of security information and event management (SIEM) solutions and the logs and events needed to detect malware, attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures. In addition to having a breadth of technical experience, the candidate should have customer communication experience.
How you will make an impact:
- Work with application development teams and third-party vendors to develop data for enterprise applications in order to create appropriate logs and events.
- Create logging configuration standards for all IT infrastructure and instructs IT on how to configure systems to log appropriately.
- Create event dashboards and metrics and establishes threshold standards.
- Perform centralized data onboarding and log ingestion into the Splunk platform to improve the visibility of security threat management at Delta Dental of California.
- Administer Splunk Enterprise Security solution in a highly available, redundant, distributed multi-site clustered environment.
- Create and optimize correlation searches for the Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts.
- Assist in the operations, performance, and troubleshooting of Splunk, Search Heads, Indexers, Heavy Forwarders, Deployment Server, Splunk Apps/TAs and Data Models.
- Provide recommendations and implement changes to optimize the Splunk platform.
- Reproduce issues, file bug reports, and escalate cases to Splunk support as necessary.
- Perform log audits and actively work to improve log management compliance.
- Ensure data retention of logs and alerts meets corporate standards.
- Maintain Splunk systems internal documentation, including SOP’s and design documents.
- Create technical documentation related to system configurations, process, procedure, and knowledgebase articles.
- Support defensive tools and solutions that identify and stop advanced adversary tactics and techniques.
- Participate in Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) responses to active and time-sensitive threats including communications and coordination across different teams.
- Work closely with other members of the Cyber Risk Management team to lead changes in the company's defense posture.
What we look for:
- 5+ years of experience in information security.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise Security
- Certified Splunk Administrator/Enterprise Security
- Relevant security certifications (OSCP, OSCE, GPEN, GXPN, GREM, GNFA, GCFA)
- Experience administrating and operating Splunk in an enterprise environment
- Knowledge and experience working with the Splunk API
- Understands the security incident response discipline, including threat hunting, forensics, intrusion detection, and threat intelligence
- Experience with at least one interpreted programming language (Python, Ruby, etc.)
- Proficiency in PowerShell and/or Bash
- Understanding of TCP/IP networking, and network services such as DNS, SMTP, DHCP, etc.
- Experience in common phishing and other social engineering tactics
- Familiarity with malware, command and control channels, and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures
- Teamwork and ability to promote a working environment that increases collaboration, predictability, transparency and promotes a culture of experimentation and innovation
- Effective and consistent collaboration through available mediums that enable remote team communication
- Ability to work effectively in a diverse team and promote team diversity
Benefits and perks:
- 12 days starting vacation plus 12 holidays and your birthday off!
- Multiple medical insurance options: 100% paid or low cost premiums
- 100% paid dental insurance
- 100% paid vision insurance
- Onsite gym and/or gym discount and fitness incentive
- Culture of learning: substantial tuition reimbursement to improve your skills
- Career growth: we love promoting from within
- Strong commitment to work/life balance
- Technology allowance
- Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities
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At Delta Dental we:
Promote accountability, integrity and collaboration: Our employees are collaborative, self-aware, and ethical. It is our expectation to do the right thing and follow through on commitments.
Foster professional development: Our employees take ownership of developing themselves and others through coaching, mentoring and providing/being open to constructive feedback and identifying learning opportunities.
Value customers and cultivate positive experiences: Our employees take time to build rapport with customers, while anticipating and exceeding their needs to ensure positive outcomes.
If you think this sounds like you, let’s chat. We would love to tell you more!
ABOUT Delta Dental
Delta Dental covers more Americans than any other dental benefits provider. Our vision is to motivate and empower every employee so we’re all inspired to take exceptional care of our customers, providers and each other. Our Enterprise Strategy focuses on pillars of Growth and Diversification, supported by the platforms of Culture and People, Process and Technology. Our employees take pride working for a purpose-driven organization and live our values of Trust, Service, Excellence and Innovation.
We are part of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 74 million people in the U.S. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania and Delta Dental Insurance Company, together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation’s largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering 33 million enrollees. All of our companies are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country.
Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other classification protected by federal or state law. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Proof of eligibility to work in the United States must be provided if selected for hire.
Delta Dental is the largest dental plan system in the United States, also known as Dental Service of Massachusetts.
- Founded
- Founded 1955
- Employees
- 500+ employees
- Industry
- Insurance