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Staff Security Engineer - SecOps & Threats

Leads SecOps and threat response, including incident handling, forensics, automation building, and threat exercises. Requires 5+ years in Security Operations, automation experience, and familiarity with security tools like SIEM, SOAR, and AWS.

231k – 266kUnited StatesSecurity EngineeringRemote5+ YOE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Execute on milestones for end-to-end SecOps & Threat initiatives in accordance with the Security roadmap
  • Identify and respond to complex security incidents, including system compromise, intrusion attempts, and/or denial of service attacks by conducting continuous monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and log analysis
  • Engage vendors, Infrastructure, IT, GRC, Cloud, and Application Security teams as required to validate alerts, ensure incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis
  • Research emerging threats, publicly disclosed vulnerabilities or attack vectors, and proactively push mitigating controls to products and services
  • Perform security forensics
  • Build security tools and advanced automation that enable the 6sense Security Team to operate at speed and scale
  • Propose, plan, lead, and execute threat exercises based on current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research
  • Mentor engineers across Information Security to drive security controls and risk remediation
  • Communicate risks and mitigations across multiple audiences with varying levels of sensitivity
  • Execute on quarterly individual Key Results that support team Objectives (OKRs)

Performance Measurement

  • Maintains up-to-date knowledge of 6sense's product, environment, systems, and architecture
  • Actively prepares for weekly 1:1s with Manager and monthly skip levels
  • Takes part in the Security Operations on-call rotation
  • Mitigates security exposures
  • Drives incidents to closure within established SLAs
  • Participates in creation of milestones associated with major security projects
  • Executes on milestones associated with major security projects
  • Develops and maintains up-to-date handbook pages, runbooks, workflows, and dashboards
  • Provides project status updates on a weekly basis

Educational and Experience Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience being part of a Security Operations or similar team
  • 3+ years of experience developing automation
  • 2+ years of experience conducting adversary emulation exercises
  • Experience with security tools and cloud environments (e.g., Vulnerability Scanners, SIEM, SOAR, AWS)
  • Experience with industry frameworks, regulations, and standards, such as: MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, PASTA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI, SOX, NIST, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • Relevant industry certifications, such as CISSP, CISM, or GIAC

Compensation

Base Salary Range: $231,089.25 - $265,930.90. Actual salaries may vary based on work location and experience. Includes bonus, stock options, health insurance, 401K matching, PTO, and self-care days.

Skills

SIEMSoarAWSMitre Att&CkVulnerability ScannersISO 27001SOC 2NistCisspCism

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