Cybersecurity Engineering Specialist
Merck · Bucuresti (ana Tower), Romania
IT & SoftwareFull-timeCompany career page
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Role summary
Merck seeks a cybersecurity engineering specialist to design, engineer, and operate enterprise-scale XDR and SIEM platforms across Microsoft and Google ecosystems. The role focuses on threat detection quality, response effectiveness, and platform reliability in a global enterprise environment.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or SOC engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR
- Experience with Google Security Operations (Chronicle SIEM) or equivalent cloud SIEM platforms
- Proficiency in KQL and structured detection logic authoring
- Solid understanding of cloud security (Azure and/or GCP), identity, endpoint, and network telemetry
- Experience operating security platforms in large, complex enterprise environments
What you'll be doing
- Engineer, operate, and optimize Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR across multiple security products
- Design and maintain scalable ingestion architectures including normalization, enrichment, and routing in hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Support detection tuning activities to reduce false positives and improve signal-to-noise ratio aligned with SOC workflows
- Support telemetry onboarding, validation, parsing, and quality monitoring across security data sources
- Implement automation for detection lifecycle management, enrichment, and response orchestration using SOAR and platform capabilities
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