Security Threat Detection Engineer - II (SOC)

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ABOUT TEKION

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.

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JOB INTRODUCTION

The Security Threat Detection Engineer II (SOC) is a hands-on member of the company's 24x7 Security Operations Center, responsible for monitoring, triaging, and responding to security alerts across the company's technology environment. This role operates on a rotating shift schedule, including night shifts, weekends, and holidays, to ensure continuous security coverage. A major focus of this role is responding to and investigating security alerts, reducing false positives through detection tuning, building and improving detection rules, conducting proactive threat hunting, performing malware analysis to support investigations, tracking and reporting SOC metrics, and automating response workflows using AI agents and SOAR platforms. The Engineer II works on moderately complex projects with minimal supervision and partners with IT, Engineering, and Security Operations to identify risks, remediate vulnerabilities, and strengthen overall security posture.

The work

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work in a 24x7 SOC environment on a rotating shift schedule, including night shifts, weekends, and holidays, providing continuous alert monitoring and response coverage.
• Triage, investigate, and respond to security alerts from SIEM, EDR, cloud, network, and identity sources; escalate confirmed incidents per established procedures.
• Continuously tune detections and alert logic to reduce false positives and improve signal-to-noise ratio across the alert pipeline.
• Build, test, and maintain detection rules and use cases aligned to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, based on emerging threats and gaps identified during investigations.
• Conduct proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunts across endpoint, network, cloud, and identity telemetry to uncover threats that evade existing detections, and convert hunt findings into new detection rules.
• Perform malware analysis (static and dynamic/sandbox-based) on suspicious files, scripts, and artifacts to determine behavior, extract indicators of compromise (IOCs), and inform containment, detection, and response actions.
• Design, build, and maintain automation using AI agents and SOAR workflows/playbooks to accelerate alert triage, enrichment, containment, and response.
• Define, track, and report SOC metrics (e.g., MTTD, MTTR, alert volume, false positive rates, automation coverage) to measure and improve SOC effectiveness.
• Participate in incident detection, response, containment, and root cause analysis, including post-incident reviews and lessons learned.
• Implement, configure, and maintain security tools, monitoring systems, and access controls that support SOC operations.
• Support vulnerability management, including scanning, analysis, and remediation coordination.
• Collaborate with Engineering and IT teams to embed security best practices and improve telemetry, logging, and detection coverage.
• Assist in maintaining compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST).
• Contribute to threat mode