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Senior Consultant II, System Engineering Security (Threatat CDW Careers (UK)
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Description
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we’re the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.
The Opportunity:
Sr. Threat Researcher
Join CDW and help protect delivery of full stack technology solutions and global services for 250K+ customers—including corporate enterprise, government, education, and healthcare industries. You will be on a team dedicated to collaborative delivery of a new global information security strategy, operating model, and objectives to accelerate CDW’s business goals in a secure way.
Your role at CDW is of the utmost importance to the company’s mission, objectives, and reputation. As the Senior Threat Researcher, you will play a pivotal role in identifying and analyzing unique cyber threat tactics, techniques, and procedures—ensuring proactive detection capabilities to aid the global threat detection and response mission. Your responsibilities include three core components:
Threat Research
- Conduct in-depth research and analysis of current and emerging cyber threats, including attack vectors, malware behavior, and procedural tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Partner with CDW’s Cybersecurity Services team to support threat research across common corporate and managed technology vendor solutions/systems.
- Track threat actors group profiles, trends, and tradecraft.
- Leverage a wide range of tools and techniques to identify and analyze threat intelligence, including open-source intelligence, strategic cyber threat intelligence, and dark web sources.
- Collaborate with other cybersecurity coworkers to develop and implement effective defensive strategies against identified threats.
Threat Hunting
- Build and execute regular threat hunting campaigns focused on current, emerging, and obscure tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Proactively search for, identify, and analyze new and existing techniques to detect advanced and targeted threats.
- Utilize advanced threat hunting techniques to detect anomalies and suspicious activities that may indicate a compromise.
- Develop and maintain threat hunting playbooks, procedures, and best practices to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the threat hunting program.
- Collaborate with other cybersecurity professionals, including CDW’s Cybersecurity Services team to scale threat hunting outcomes and insights.
Threat Reporting
- Develop high-quality threat insights that are relevant and actionable for CDW security operations centers.
- Produce detailed threat analysis reports, threat briefs, and other publications that provide insights into the latest cyber threats and attack analytics.
- Collaborate with CDW’s Cybersecurity Services team to publish public threat reports, including themes, trends, and threat actor profiles.
Who you are:
- You thrive on making an impact—for the team, your company, and the industry.
- You are extremely hands-on with a passion for technology.
- You do not accept the status-quo, and always strive to improve.
- You are eager to learn and seek professional development continuously.
- You are resourceful, open-minded, analytical and enjoy solving complex problems.
- You are diligent and self-motivated.
What we are looking for:
- Strong understanding of advanced threat hunting techniques, including the use of EDR tools, network traffic analysis, and other techniques.
- Experience with threat intelligence platforms, SIEM, and other cybersecurity tools and technologies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and creatively.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.
What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you’ll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self—and your best ideas—to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving—and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
