
Senior Threat Detection Engineer
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The Senior Threat Detection Engineer leads the engineering, creation, and tuning of detection capabilities to protect enterprise and cloud-native environments. The role combines threat hunting, data engineering, and automation, and partners with SOC, Red Team, and Threat Intel to improve detection quality and MITRE ATT&CK coverage. It also provides technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level security engineers.
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JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way. Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented peopleand empowering them tothrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you've got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you're looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward. The Senior Threat Detection Engineer at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) leads the engineering, creation, and tuning of advanced detection capabilities. This role bridges threat hunting, data engineering, and automation to protect enterprise and cloud-native environments from sophisticated threat actors.Key Responsibilities * Detection Engineering: Design, implement, and tune high-fidelity detection rules across SIEM, EDR/XDR, and cloud-native SaaS platforms. * Data Pipeline Management: Work with centralized logging, data lakes, and detection telemetry. * Threat Modeling & Hunting: Proactively analyze attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and execute hypothesis-driven threat hunting campaigns. * Automation & AI Integration: Implement security automations using SOAR platforms and explore AI/ML and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance incident response and automated response actions. * Collaboration: Partner closely with SOC, Red Team, and Threat Intel to validate signal quality, reduce false positives, and improve MITRE ATT&CK coverage. * Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level security engineers.Typical Requirements & Qualifications * Experience: 4-8+ years in cybersecurity, with a heavy emphasis on threat detection, incident response, or SOC operations. * Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related quantitative field. * Demonstrative experience in developing automation solutions for Cyber Security * 5+ years Information Technology experience * 4+ years of Cyber Security Experience * 2+ years of any SOAR tool experience (Splunk SOAR, Sentinel, Swimlane, etc * Experience in utilizing CI/CD tools (such as GitHub Actions) to automate build, test, and deployment processes, ensuring smooth and efficient software delivery * Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) to automate infrastructure provisioning and ensure consistent environments throughout the development lifecycle * Strong verbal communications skills and concise written communication skills * Strong organizational and multi-tasking and time management skills * Prefers to work in agile team environmentTechnical Skills:The Senior Threat Detection Engineer at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) leads the engineering, creation, and tuning of advanced detection capabilities. This role bridges threat hunting, data engineering, and automation to protect enterprise and cloud-native environments from sophisticated threat actors.Key Responsibilities * Detection Engineering: Design, implement, and tune high-fidelity detection rules across SIEM, EDR/XDR, and cloud-native SaaS platforms. * Data Pipeline Management: Work with centralized logging, data lakes, and detection telemetry. * Threat Modeling & Hunting: Proactively analyze attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and execute hypothesis-driven threat hunting campaigns. * Automation & AI Integration: Implement security automations using SOAR platforms and explore AI/ML and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance incident response and automated response actions. * Collaboration: Partner closely with SOC, Red Team, and Threat Intel to validate signal quality, reduce false positives, and improve MITRE ATT&CK coverage. * Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and
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Set against the 1,563 open Cybersecurity Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
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- New York median$105–192K/yr44 salary ranges
- US median$60–69/hr24 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 57 open Cybersecurity Engineer jobs in New York and 1,563 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Cybersecurity Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,451 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 635 of the 1,563 open Cybersecurity Engineer jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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