Senior Security Operations Engineer - 100% Remote - 1 Year Contract

Job Details:

Job Title:             Senior Security Operations Engineer

Location:            100% Remote

Duration:            6 Months Contract (an opportunity to extend this to 9 months pending results from the first 6 months)

Description:

We need someone to lead the Vulnerability Management Program as its primary Operator. They will be responsible for inbound vulnerabilities, logging tickets and perhaps assisting with triage. They will track the tickets and ensure the assigned team resolves them. They will also assist with quarterly reviews of User Access for their compliance programs.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end security incident response, including triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident learnings.
• Build and continuously improve detection coverage across cloud, endpoint, identity, and SaaS systems.
• Develop security automation and workflows to reduce manual toil and improve response speed.
• Lead investigations into suspicious activity, account compromise, and potential data exposure events.
• Partner with Engineering and IT to harden systems, improve logging/telemetry, and close recurring control gaps.
• Drive readiness through tabletop exercises, runbooks, metrics, and operational reviews.
• Manage security tooling configuration and tuning (SIEM, EDR, IAM, alerting) to reduce noise and increase fidelity.
• Communicate clearly during high-severity situations, aligning stakeholders on impact, status, and next steps.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, or similar security roles.
• Strong understanding of attacker techniques and defensive strategies across cloud, endpoint, identity, and network surfaces.
• Hands-on experience with SIEMs, EDR platforms, and investigation workflows (including log querying and alert tuning).
• Ability to AI tools to streamline security operations and response.
• Experience building incident response processes, playbooks, and operational metrics that scale with company growth.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence Engineering and IT partners without relying on authority.
• Calm, structured decision-making under pressure, with strong written incident communication.
• AI fluency: ability to use AI tools to accelerate investigations (summarization, clustering, query generation) while validating outputs and protecting sensitive data.