Security Engineer (Security Operations)
Security Engineer triages events, responds to incidents, manages AWS security services, and improves vulnerability management/threat detection on the security operations team. Requires 1-3 years security experience, scripting (Python), Linux, and security tools like SIEM and scanners.
Responsibilities
- Support improvements in vulnerability management, threat detection, and incident response capabilities.
- Triage security events and respond to incidents, containing them and guiding recovery.
- Strengthen threat detection and response systems for cloud infrastructure, third-party integrations, and platform services.
- Develop and refine security processes, procedures, and runbooks.
- Manage and tune AWS security services (IAM, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config).
- Collaborate with teams to probe vulnerabilities, assess risk, and advise on responses.
- Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, and review code/configurations.
- Proactively solve security challenges and foster security mindset.
Requirements
- 1-3 years in security-focused role.
- Experience handling security events/incidents from triage to remediation.
- Programming skills in scripting language (e.g., Python); comfortable in Linux.
- Experience with vulnerability scanners (Nessus, Trivy), HIDS/NIDS (Wazuh, Zeek), SIEM/SOAR (Splunk, ELK, Datadog).
- Understand vulnerability lifecycle; detecting, prioritizing, remediating.
- Written detection rules and response processes.
- Explain technical concepts accessibly; balance security with productivity.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with SaaS and distributed systems.
- Programming in compiled language (e.g., Java).
- Experience with AWS, Terraform, Ansible, git.
Compensation
- Salary range: $159,000 - $201,000 (dependent on experience/skills).
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