Senior Security Engineer
Cision
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Description
We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to help monitor, investigate, and respond to security activity across cloud, identity, endpoint, and Linux-based environments. This role requires hands-on technical ability, strong scripting skills, and practical experience working with AWS, with GCP experience preferred.
- Monitor and investigate security alerts across cloud, identity, endpoint, and network environments.
- Review logs and activity from AWS, GCP, Active Directory, Linux systems, Windows systems, and security tools.
- Support incident response by gathering evidence, validating suspicious activity, and documenting findings.
- Write scripts to automate repetitive security tasks, log analysis, reporting, or enrichment.
- Assist with security reviews, including IAM, storage exposure, compute workloads, and network configurations.
- Investigate authentication activity, user behavior, privilege changes, and potential account compromise.
- Work with internal teams to understand systems, identify risks, and support remediation, compliance and audit activities.
- Be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support.
- Experience with cloud security concepts, services, logs, and IAM.
- Strong scripting ability, preferably with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Chronicle, Sentinel, or similar tools.
- Working knowledge of Linux and Windows systems, command line usage, permissions, processes, and logs.
- Basic to intermediate understanding of Active Directory, including users, groups, authentication, and privilege changes.
- Ability to read and interpret logs from cloud platforms, operating systems, and security tools.
- Understanding of common security concepts such as phishing, credential compromise, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and exposed services.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform security, including IAM, Cloud Logging, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPCs, and service accounts.
- Exposure to Kubernetes, containers, or cloud-native workloads.
- Experience creating automation for security monitoring or response.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience in security operations, incident response, systems administration, cloud operations, or a similar technical role.
- Hands-on experience using scripts to solve operational or security problems.
- Comfortable working in both cloud and Linux command-line environments.
What we offer:
- Friendly and welcoming environment focused on people, learning & development
- 25 vacation days and extra vacation days after age and after children
- Cafeteria benefit via SZEP card
- Medicover private health insurance for employees and their family members
- 10% of your time to work on anything you like, reading groups, tech talks
- Flexible working and working from home
- An extensive people development program, including access to Udemy
Please note:
- Candidates must be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support.
- The interview process will include a hands-on practical exercise conducted through screen sharing, where candidates will be asked to demonstrate relevant technical skills.
Benefits
- Friendly and welcoming environment focused on people, learning & development
- 25 vacation days and extra vacation days after age and after children
- Cafeteria benefit via SZEP card
- Medicover private health insurance for employees and their family members
- 10% of your time to work on anything you like, reading groups, tech talks
- Flexible working and working from home
- An extensive people development program, including access to Udemy
- Candidates must be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support.
- The interview process will include a hands-on practical exercise conducted through screen sharing, where candidates will be asked to demonstrate relevant technical skills.
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