Cyber Operate Detection Engineer - Consultant

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity.

Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape.

Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Recruiting for this role ends on 12/31/2026.

Work you'll do

As a Managed Services Engineer II on the Cyber Operate Offering team, you will be responsible for helping develop, test, tune, and maintain cybersecurity detections that support client security operations.


* Review threat intelligence, emerging threats, attack techniques, vulnerabilities, and historical incident information to identify detection requirements.


* Develop, maintain, and update detection rules, queries, signatures, and indicators of compromise for security monitoring platforms.


* Configure and tune detections; identify false positives; and recommend improvements that maintain effective threat coverage.


* Test and validate detection rules against known threats and attack scenarios; document test results, configuration changes, and detection logic.


* Monitor detection performance; investigate gaps or unexpected results; support incident-response research; and collaborate with security operations center analysts, threat hunters, incident responders, Platform Operations Engineers, and client cybersecurity teams.

A successful candidate would possess these skills:


* Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team


* Effective written and verbal communication skills


* Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product


* Ability to build and sustain professional relationships


* Ability to lead projects or workstreams


* Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment


* Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor


* Ability to meet deadlines


* Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The team

Our Cyber Operate Offering operates clients' critical cyber assets as a fully managed service or working in partnership with clients.

Provides talent, leading technologies, and processes to operate client cyber capabilities, including the identity lifecycle, security operations, threat intelligence, application security business transformation, and continuous compliance.

Qualifications

Required:


* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Computer Engineering.


* 2+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, threat intelligence, networking, or systems administration.


* Experience reviewing or analyzing authentication events, network traffic, operating system activity, vulnerability data, security logs, or alerts.


* Experience using at least one scripting or query language: Python, Power...