Job Description
Job Description
Job Title
Security Operations Engineer
Hiring Manager/Reporting Position
Senior Director of IT
Department
IT
Location
Home Office (Remote)
Exempt Position
Yes
Salary Grade
Full-Time (40 Hours/Week)
Salary Range
$110K - $125K
PURPOSE OF JOB:
The Security Operations Engineer is responsible for assisting in maintaining Jopari’s IT environment and contributing to all work done to the infrastructure in support of the secure functioning of Jopari’s business.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Create and complete Jira tickets with partners to accomplish IT tasks.
- Utilize logs to validate traffic and troubleshoot problems.
- Proactively communicate open issues with internal and external stakeholders.
- Identify and resolve security issues across the cloud infrastructure.
- Build, deploy, and manage security tools and services.
- Design and implement scalable processes to provision cloud access.
- Maintain a low-touch, reliable, and user-friendly infrastructure.
- Evaluate and respond to alerts and events from security tools.
- Tune security tool configuration to minimize false positives.
- Develop event response documentation and processes, including diagrams for system environments, cloud operations, and security tools.
- Collaborate with security leadership, engineering, and compliance to execute security strategies.
- Assist other teams in solving security issues in a manner that complies with business requirements and best practices.
- Assess our current cloud security and propose improvements or solutions.
- Review our architecture and design through a security lens to provide actionable, timely requirements and recommendations.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for security tools, applications, and processes.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- BA/BS in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or Computer Engineering preferred, and 5+ years of related experience, including work in an information security role.
- Excellent verbal and written communications, and effective interpersonal skills.
- Aptitude for learning new technical skills quickly and adapting to changes.
- Ability to deal effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently with limited direction.
- Ability to work rapidly and accurately when under pressure.
- Exceptional troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
- 5+ years of experience working with a public cloud infrastructure.
- Experience deploying and customizing security tools such as vulnerability scanners, static analyzers, IDS/IPS, firewalls, and endpoint security monitoring.
- Experience with automated security testing.
- Experience with networking and Linux servers.
- Experience with log management and/or correlation systems.
- Fluent in one or more scripting languages.
- Thorough understanding of cloud and network security.
- Knowledge of networking and web protocols.
- Knowledge of modern cloud technology components and deployment patterns.
- Security-related certification (NIST framework preferred).