Join Pandora’s SecOps team as a Security Operations Detection Engineer, focusing on building and enhancing our detection and response capabilities. This role is based in Copenhagen with a relocation package available and involves working in a collaborative and engineering-led environment.
Responsibilities include:
- Developing, testing, implementing and maintaining detection mechanisms to identify security threats and vulnerabilities across Pandora’s internal environment.
- Leading and enhancing the detection & response engineering team by continuously improving detection capabilities and serving as the central driving force for detection engineering.
- Analysing detection gaps and building new detections in a threat-driven manner by leveraging threat intelligence and coverage analysis.
- Testing, evaluating and maintaining security tooling, defining best practices for detection engineering and ensuring adherence across SOC analysts, internal security teams and external MSSP partners.
- Owning and operating our detection-as-code pipeline, developing and fine-tuning threat detections and response runbooks across the SecOps toolstack, cloud infrastructure, SaaS services and corporate systems.
- Analysing internal security event data to identify trends, patterns and anomalies, automating routine security tasks and collaborating with SOC analysts, incident responders and SOAR engineers to enhance detection and response workflows.
- Documenting detection processes and findings, mentoring junior detection engineers and participating in an on-call rotation to handle escalations and critical incidents.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 years of experience in security engineering with a focus on detection engineering, incident response or threat hunting.
- Experience working within a SOC and developing detection logic across SIEM, EDR, NDR and cloud-native platforms.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g. Python) and hands-on experience with Git, DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with SOAR platforms to automate security processes and streamline incident response workflows.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret security telemetry and excellent communication skills to articulate detection strategies and findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
This position offers a unique opportunity to join a growing security team, work in a modern office and contribute to Pandora’s mission to maintain a strong security posture while operating in an inclusive and agile environment.
