Role overview

Sr. Security Operations Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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Key Accountabilities:

  • Design, implement, and continuously improve detection rules across SIEM, EDR, and cloud security platforms

Key Accountabilities:

  • Develop automated response playbooks to reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)

Key Accountabilities:

  • Leverage GenAI tools (e.g., Anthropic Claude, Cursor) to:

Key Accountabilities:

  • Accelerate log analysis and threat triage

Key Accountabilities:

  • Summarize and enrich security alerts and incident data

Key Accountabilities:

  • Generate detection logic (e.g., Sigma rules, queries, scripts)

Key Accountabilities:

  • Assist in root cause analysis and investigation workflows

Key Accountabilities:

  • Integrate GenAI into SOC workflows via APIs and internal tooling

Key Accountabilities:

  • Enhance detection pipelines using AI-assisted enrichment and correlation

Key Accountabilities:

  • Analyze logs across endpoints, cloud environments, SaaS platforms, and networks

Desired Skills and Experience:

  • 3–7+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Detection Engineering, or Incident Response

Desired Skills and Experience:

  • Hands-on experience with SIEM (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Sentinel) and/or EDR platforms

Desired Skills and Experience:

  • Strong understanding of security fundamentals (networking, OS, cloud security, identity)

Desired Skills and Experience:

  • Experience with scripting or programming (Python preferred)

Desired Skills and Experience:

  • Proven experience using GenAI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT) in security workflows
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FocusSecurity Operations EngineeringRole area
Seniority signalSeniorCandidate level
StackAWS, PythonPrimary skills
Location1 accepted countryEligibility

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