DFIR Engineer II - Incident Response

As a DFIR Engineer II on the Threat Detection & Response team, your role will include responding to, investigating and containing anomalous or malicious activity that could indicate a security threat. You’ll be responsible for staying up to date on the latest cybersecurity threats and assisting in the continual development and refinement related to monitoring, detecting and responding to abnormal network and host activity.

What You’ll Do:

• Triage, pivot and correlate across multiple network and host-based log sources.
• Analyze system artifacts and memory for evidence of compromise.
• Proactively hunt for and identify malicious activity in various log sources using threat intelligence and other indicators of compromise.
• Document detailed findings including timelines of events or incidents
• Continually improve incident response procedures and documentation.
• Engage with Detection Engineering and Red Team to identify opportunities to better monitor/detect suspicious behavior and automate response capabilities.
• Keep up to date on evolving cyber threats and identify methods to detect them.
• Participate in an on-call rotation with other Incident Response Engineers

• Experience with security tools including SIEM, EDR, AV, CASB, Next-gen Firewalls, and VPN.
• Experience with system and network artifacts.
• Working knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Familiarity with various cloud environments and containerization technologies (AWS, Azure, O365, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Functional and practical experience with at least one development or scripting language/framework (e.g. PowerShell, Python, .Net) and regular expressions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Demonstrated curiosity and passion for cybersecurity.

Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.