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Principal Detection and Response Engineer
Company | Okta |
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Location | Toronto, ON, Canada |
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Salary | $186000 – $278000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing threat detection, incident response, and security automation solutions
- Strong communication skills and a thirst for knowledge
- Ability to automate tasks and create tools when necessary
- Experience leading or contributing to technology-focused teams
- Experience mentoring staff and providing development opportunities
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize security detection capabilities across Okta’s infrastructure and applications
- Build and refine advanced security detections using custom detection pipelines, EDR, cloud-native security tools, and behavioral analytics
- Serve as a senior escalation point for complex security incidents, leading technical investigations and root cause analyses
- Develop and implement forensic analysis techniques to investigate security breaches and insider threats
- Architect and implement automation for security operations, including enrichment, triage, and response playbooks
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience researching the tactics, techniques and procedures of sophisticated adversaries
- Experience developing detection and response validation techniques and automating tests
- Experience analyzing critical systems to understand both how to break them and defend them against attack
- Experience working collaboratively within product and/or enterprise project teams