Security Engineer

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The Security Engineer (Incident Response) will support the triage, investigation, and remediation of security incidents to protect the corporate IT environment and maintain compliance with internal and external requirements.  This role will oversee various security tools, respond to alerts, and work investigations to remediation.  The Security Engineer with collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams to contribute to enterprise-wide information security initiatives.

What you will do:

• Respond to day-to-day alerts that come into security tooling including SIEM, EDR, email security, and other tooling.
• Independently work medium severity security investigations from detection to investigation to resolution.
• Participate in and contribute to team-based large-scale investigations.
• Perform forensic review of alerts, files, systems.
• Correlate multiple data points into a coherent story
• Accurately determine true positive vs false positive with documented justification
• Identify and communicate scope and impact of incidents.
• Document findings clearly and completely, communicate status and risk effectively.
• Perform consistent and accurate triage and analysis with a low error rate.
• Provide improvements to playbooks, runbooks, and detection rules, participate in tabletop exercises.
• Assist with driving incidents to full remediation and assist with implementing new and compensating controls.
• Configure, maintain, and monitor assigned tooling.
• Flag and remediate gaps in detection or process.
• Communicate incident findings in both technical and non-technical language to various teams.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in incident response and/or security operations center operations, triaging and investigating cyber events and incidents.
• 3+ years of experience managing security controls, including defining policies and administering EDR, email security, SIEM, performing detection engineering, and responding to alerts and incidents.
• 2+ years of experience creating incident response playbooks, runbooks, and tabletop exercises.
• 1+ years of experience as a security specialist in a regulated IT environment involving SOC2, SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, or a combination of these frameworks, including responsibility for assisting with or coordinating audits.
• 2+ years of experience in network and application security administration, penetration testing, and/or threat assessments.
• 5 years of experience in information technology or a related field within the last 10 years.
• 1+ years of generative AI and automation experience including scripting.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation.

This job operates in a professional office environment.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description. You may be required to perform other duties that are not included on this job description. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason, as per terms and conditions of your employment contract.