Sr. Incident Response (IR) Detection Engineer

PENNYMAC

Pennymac (NYSE : PFSI) is a specialty financial services firm with a comprehensive mortgage platform and integrated business focused on the production and servicing of U.S. mortgage loans and the management of investments related to the U.S. mortgage market.

At Pennymac, our people are the foundation of our success and at the heart of our dynamic work culture. Together, we work towards a unified goal of helping millions of Americans achieve aspirations of homeownership through the complete mortgage journey.

A Typical Day

The Pennymac Information Security department is looking to bring on a Senior IR Detection Engineer to drive our Threat Detection and Response efforts. You will specialize in developing sophisticated signatures, queries, alerts, and dashboards to detect and neutralize cyber threats in a complex cloud environment while focusing on the SOC analyst experience.

The Senior IR Detection Engineer will :

• Detection as Code : Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality detection rules using version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI / CD pipelines.
• Drive the overall detection engineering lifecycle including processes, improvements, and innovations.
• Use inputs from Threat Intelligence (TI) and threat modeling exercises to identify critical detection gaps.
• Maintain a comprehensive risk detection coverage mapping to communicate current coverage and show improvements.
• Serve as the primary author and reviewer of new detectors, ensuring proper documentation and testing.
• Continually observe the performance of existing detectors and tune them to reduce false positives and ensure they remain valuable.
• Leverage AI / ML capabilities to enhance the detection engineering lifecycle and identify anomalies.
• Partner with the Security Engineering team to configure, maintain, and optimize security monitoring tools to ensure maximum data ingestion quality and search performance.

Incident Response & Operations Support

What You'll Bring

Why You Should Join

As one of the top mortgage lenders in the country, Pennymac has helped over 4 million lifetime homeowners achieve and sustain their aspirations of home. Our vision is to be the most trusted partner for home. Together, 4,000 Pennymac team members across the country are guided by our core values : to be Accountable, Reliable and Ethical in all that we do. Pennymac is committed to conducting a business that makes positive contributions and promotes long-term sustainable growth and to fostering an equitable and inclusive environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported.

Benefits That Bring It Home : Whether you're looking for flexible benefits for today, setting up short-term goals for tomorrow, or planning for long-term success and retirement, Pennymac's benefits have you covered. Some key benefits include :

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Compensation : Individual salary may vary based on multiple factors including specific role, geographic location / market data, and skills and experience as defined below :

Some roles may be eligible for performance-based compensation and / or stock-based incentives awarded to employees based on company and individual performance.

Salary

$90,000 - $150,000

Work Model

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