Lead Threat Detection Engineer

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you. McKesson’s Lead Threat Detection Engineer will be a member of our global cyber threat intelligence, incident response, analytics, and engineering team responsible for advancing our detection capabilities and tools. This team is responsible for building detection content, enabling integration, automation, enrichment, and performance of alerts. This role enables speed, quality, and coverage of threats for security operations and reduces risk to McKesson business operations. Position Description/Responsibilities Mature from a manual detection practice to a modern, automated, and standardized Detection-as-Code practice and infrastructure. Develop use-cases based on intelligence, red team results, and incident data Develop IOC workflows and a feedback loop for the Threat Inte [... source excerpt omitted ...] etection stack is built Understand data schema/API standards, automation, and messaging systems Bring a metrics-driven mindset to our rules, signals (IOCs), and alerts Critical Requirements Prioritize detection use-case and scope and create a logical rule Ability to prioritize decisions to either write a rule and/or tune a tool/policy Practical experience with threat Actor tracking, tactics, tools, and techniques and working closely with Intel, SOC, and Red Teams (Purple Teams) Ability to measure detection coverage across common frameworks (e.g. NIST CSF, MITRE, KC) and simplify rules and configurations to optimize alerts Ability to automate tasks via scripting, automating in [... source excerpt omitted ...] ational, and communication skills and ability to internalize and exemplify Mckesson core values. Splunk SPL knowledge and SIEM experience or additional SIEM background Following Qualifications would be advantageous: 10+ years of professional experience in two or more domains, including: detection engineering, data engineering, incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Security Engineering, Statistics, or Data Science Chronicle Experience, Splunk Certifications (1,2), Automation certifications (Security with Python SEC573), Sigma Rules We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as