SOC Detection Engineering Lead

**Job Description**:
**About AXA**

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.

**About the entity**

AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation.

We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.

At AXA Group Operations, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:

- State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience
- State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks
- High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities

**Where will you be in the organization?**

**The division**

You will join the Group Security division, defining the security standards to be applied by AXA entities, overseeing the overall security posture across the Group and providing centralized services to support entities (Crisis Management, Security Operations Centre, etc.).

Throughout AXA Group, the security community represents composed of 1000 security professionals, working daily to protect our customers, operations, brand and people. To achieve this, we have gathered our three security disciplines: Information Security, Physical Security and Operational Resilience.

Our main missions:

- Monitor the Security Threat Landscape
- Define and oversee Security Standards and Strategy implementation across the Group
- Drive local security objectives with C-Level executive (COO, CIO, CTO, CFO ) of AXA entities
- Ensure the security of Group Operations as an entity
- Provide centralized security services and products to AXA entities

AXA Group Security is divided in 4 main blocks:

- Corporate functions (Group Mandate) : Security Advisory and Standards, Security Governance, Security Risk & Assurance, Security Strategy and Awareness
- CyberDefense (Group security services and products provider)
- Group Operations Security (Security of the hosting entity)
- Corporate Chief Security Officers (Oversight of entities’ security) : Corporate Centre, European Markets, International Markets

**The department / team**

Within Group Security, the Cyber Defense department provides the entities and markets with first line of defense services. Under Cyber Defense, Security Operations Center (Security Operations Centre) is designed to prevent, detect, and react to cyber threats.

**About the job**

**Main missions**

Security Operations Center (SOC) delivers the following capabilities to the AXA entities around the globe: Security Incident Detection, Threat Hunting, Security Incident Response and Threat Intelligence.

**Key Responsibilities**
- **Detection Strategy Development**: Lead the creation, refinement and delivery of detection strategies that address both current and emerging threats across the global organization
- **Detection Engineering**: Design, implement, and optimize detection use cases, rules, and algorithms within SIEM, EDR, and other detection platforms
- **Collaboration with Threat Intelligence Teams**: Timely leverage actionable threat intelligence for designing better detections and continuously improving them
- **Collaboration with Security and Detection Teams**: Ensure Security Analysts have the necessary information and means to properly analyse alerts from detections delivered
- **Collaboration with Threat Hunting Teams**: Partner closely with dedicated threat hunting teams to share insights and refine detection capabilities based on their findings and intelligence, ensuring that detection strategies remain proactive and responsive to emerging threats
- **Collaboration with Incident Response Teams**: Work closely with incident response teams by providing them with robust detection capabilities and ensuring that the tools and techniques in place are effectively identifying and categorizing threats for timely response
- **Automation & Orchestration**: Lead efforts to automate detection processes and integrate advanc