Soc Engineer -threat Detection & Response

KKR

New York, US
On-site
Soc workflow engineering
Automation and orchestration
Agentic/mcp workflow engineering
Modernize and mature KKR’s Threat Detection & Response operations through an engineering-first approach

Job Summary

  • Modernize and mature KKR’s Threat Detection & Response operations through an engineering-first approach.
  • Engineer end-to-end SOC workflows from intake → triage → investigation → containment → lessons learned.
  • Design and implement agentic workflows that augment analysts (summarize cases, correlate signals, propose next steps, assemble evidence).

Matching Summary

Modernize and mature KKR’s Threat Detection & Response operations through an engineering-first approach.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • SOC workflow engineering
  • automation and orchestration
  • agentic/MCP workflow engineering
  • SOC tooling and data engineering
  • signal engineering
  • telemetry reliability

Nice-to-have

  • builder mindset
  • operationally grounded
  • engineering discipline
  • pragmatic about AI
  • systems thinker
  • collaborative influencer
  • metrics-driven

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years in SOC engineering, security engineering, incident response engineering, or automation/orchestration roles
  • Strong engineering fundamentals (version control, testing discipline, scripting/programming)
  • Proven ability to build workflow automation and integrate security platforms
  • Experience translating operational pain points into scalable tooling
  • Experience implementing AI-assisted SOC capabilities
  • Familiarity with agent/tool invocation patterns
  • Experience improving telemetry/data quality
  • Exposure to purple teaming / validation or detection lifecycle engineering

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