Intern Detection Research - Counter Threat Unit (Remote)

Secureworks (NASDAQ: SCWX) is a global cybersecurity leader that secures human progress with Secureworks® Taegis™, a SaaS-based, open XDR platform built on 20+ years of real-world threat intelligence and research, improving customers’ ability to detect advanced threats, streamline and collaborate on investigations, and automate the right actions.

We enjoy competitive compensation and benefits packages, and reward and recognize our employees for exceptional results. A constant focus on continued learning and growth keeps our team members engaged and excited about “what’s next.” We offer flexible work options when available, and emphasize the importance of work-life balance. We know that when our people are rewarded, recognized, and rejuvenated, we win as a team.

We are a fully remote Detection Research team working on countermeasure research and development for our company's next generation security platform. Our goal is to increase the security posture of all of our customers while building a collaborative and innovative detection culture. We are a proud member of the Dell Technologies family and offer competitive benefit and compensation packages and reward and recognize our employees for exceptional results. 

The successful candidate must be a practitioner in the security field with proven technical skills and experience researching, hunting for, and responding to threat actors. This candidate will possess skills to create and maintain high fidelity detections. As a member of a highly trained security research team – The Counter Threat Unit (CTU™) - the candidate will contribute to client-focused projects, generate high-confidence threat intelligence, and contribute to the development of advanced technologies and processes to detect threat actors, enhancing protections for our Taegis customers. 

Skills and Requirements 

We expect to see:

• 3 Year of college education/STEM/bootcamp experience

• A desire to learn and dive into detection creation and curation via network, cloud and endpoint technologies such

• Practical application of leveraging network and endpoint log analysis to create countermeasures

• Familiarity with DFIR, ATT@CK framework, etc 

• Self motivating and self directed, great at communicating ideas with remote teams

What we like to see (but not required):

• Experience working with NIDS, Endpoint and Cloud technologies

• Remote work experience with a geographically distributed team (currently we have teammates in  PST  to GMT time zones)

Work Environment

We are a remote first team and are geographically distributed across the US, Canada, and UK - we utilize tools like Slack, Google Meet and Teams to facilitate communication and tools like Miro and Lucid Charts for diagramming and communicating ideas. We also believe in a strong work-life balance and providing support for team members to accomplish that. We are a family first company that values our team members and has benefits and a culture that will help them through important life events - such as taking care of family, parental leave, etc. We also value continuing education and skills development and have Tech Tuesdays where team members can present to the engineering organization, 3rd parties coming in and giving presentations, as well as training for services like AWS and Kubernetes.

Secureworks is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Secureworks are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Secureworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

Dell’s Flexible & Hybrid Work Culture

At Dell Technologies, we believe our best work is done when flexibility is offered.

We know that freedom and flexibility are crucial to all our employees no matter where you are located and our flexible and hybrid work style allows team members to have the freedom to ideate, be innovative, and drive results their way. To learn more about our work culture, please visit our locations page.