Senior Security Operations Engineer
Job Summary
The Senior Security Operations Engineer will monitor and respond to security events while leading digital forensic investigations and incident response strategies. This role involves collaborating with a global team to maintain runbooks, automate workflows, and enhance security initiatives. The position is remote and requires expertise in incident management across cloud and diverse platform environments.
Responsibilities
- Monitor security events and provide technical analysis
- Lead incident response and forensic investigations
- Develop and execute incident response strategies
- Coordinate security service and technology integrations
Required Skills
- 5+ years Security Incident Response
- Python scripting for security tools
- SIEM proficiency and log analysis
- Cloud security (AWS, GCP)
- Forensics for macOS, Windows, Linux
Job Details
### Role Overview
As a member of the Security Operations Team, you will collaborate with a global team of engineers to monitor and respond to security events, lead security incidents as Incident Commander, and lead digital forensic investigations in support of Employee Relations, Legal, Compliance, or Information Security cases. Although focused on security incident response, you will also have the opportunity to create and maintain runbooks, automated workflows, and assist in process refinement and implementation.
### Key Responsibilities
- Monitor security events and provide technical analysis on alerts.
- Lead information security incidents and employee investigations by developing the incident response strategy, lead the execution through incident closure, while providing incident updates to key stakeholders.
- Deliver security guidance clearly and concisely for incident response and insider threat initiatives.
- Coordinate the building of services, capabilities, integrations, and implementations of technologies to support security operations, incident response, and insider threat.
### Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Security Incident Response.
- Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, and legal.
- Ability to build scripts or tools to support investigation processes, with proficiency in Python.
- Mentor and train security operation engineers on data collection, analysis, and reporting technical analysis.
- Practical experience acting as a lead during security incident response, including monitoring and triaging alerts, and coordinating across teams.
- Understanding of analysis and forensics techniques on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- Experience utilizing SIEM tools to perform log reviews.
- Experience in cloud architecture and security (AWS, GCP) and cloud-based services.
- Must reside in the Pacific Time Zone, Mountain Time Zone or Central Time Zone of the United States.
### Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience working on insider threat initiatives or employee investigations.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
- GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) Certification.
- Familiarity with common security frameworks and standards, including NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001, FedRAMP.