Experience:
5–8 Years

Location:
Hyderabad, India (In office) Function: Cybersecurity / Security Engineering Employment Type: Full-Time Role: Senior Detection & Alerting Engineer Role Overview We are looking for a Senior Detection & Alerting Engineer to build, enhance, and mature our enterprise threat detection capabilities. The role will focus on reliable, measurable, high-quality detections and progressively advance toward behavioral, risk-based, automated, and AI-assisted detection.

Key Responsibilities
• Detection Engineering: Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain detection rules and use cases across endpoint, network, identity, cloud, SaaS, and application environments.
• Threat Detection & Coverage: Map detections to MITRE ATT&CK;, identify coverage gaps, and turn threat intelligence, incident findings, and adversary TTPs into actionable detections.
• SIEM & Log Engineering: Manage detection content and correlation rules; onboard and validate log sources; troubleshoot ingestion, parsing, normalization, and data-quality issues.
• Alert Quality & Validation: Test and review detection logic, reduce false positives, improve alert fidelity, and tune or retire ineffective rules.
• Performance & Automation: Measure detection effectiveness and MTTD, improve alert prioritization and contextual enrichment, and automate repetitive detection and investigation workflows.
• Advanced Detection:



Develop behavioral and risk-based detections, support UEBA, and contribute to AI-assisted alert triage, detection engineering, and predictive risk analytics. Required Skills & Experience
• 5–8 years of cybersecurity experience, with hands-on work in detection engineering, SIEM engineering, threat hunting, or security operations.
• Practical experience with at least one SIEM platform: Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, IBM QRadar, or Elastic Security.
• Proficiency in at least one SIEM query language, such as KQL or SPL, and experience developing and tuning detection rules.
• Good understanding of MITRE ATT&CK;, Windows security, Active Directory/identity, endpoint, network, and cloud security.
• Experience with log onboarding, detection validation, event correlation, false-positive reduction, and detection-gap analysis.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to collaborate across SOC, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, Cloud, and Infrastructure teams. Preferred Skills
• Detection-as-Code, Sigma, EDR/XDR, UEBA, SOAR, threat intelligence integration, or adversary simulation.
• Exposure to AI/ML-driven security analytics, automated detection testing, or risk-based alerting. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

📌 Senior Detection (Hyderabad)
🏢 Mudals Technologies
📍 Hyderabad