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[Hiring] Security Engineer @Thinkahead
Mar 20, 2025 - Thinkahead is hiring a remote Security Engineer. 💸 Salary: on-target earnings range varies based on experience. 📍Location: USA.
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Role Description
The Managed Security Team at AHEAD monitors customers' environments and performs Incident Detection, Validation, and Incident Reporting. The Engineer will be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of our SIEM & SOAR Solutions and other technologies that support the Information Security program across AHEAD. This is a technical hands-on position that requires someone with an understanding of the needs of a 24/7 SOC (Security Operations Center).
- Design and develop workflows between and within a SOAR, SIEM, big data platforms, threat & vulnerability intelligence solutions and other information security incident response systems
- Investigate intrusion attempts and perform in-depth analysis of exploits
- Provide network intrusion detection expertise to support timely and effective decision making of when to declare an incident
- Conduct proactive threat research
- Review security events that are populated in a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system
- Tuning of rules, filters and policies for detection-related security technologies to improve accuracy and visibility
- Data mining of log sources to uncover and investigate anomalous activity, along with related items of interest
- Independently follow procedures to contain, analyze and eradicate malicious activity
- Document all activities during an incident and provide leadership with status updates during the life cycle of the incident
- Incident management, response, and reporting
- Provide information regarding intrusion events, security incidents, and other threat indications and warning information to the client
- Track trends and statistics for each assigned client
- Assist with the development of processes and procedures to improve incident response times, analysis of incident, and overall SOC functions
- Client-facing security meetings
Qualifications
- Experience writing tools to automate tasks and integrate systems in Python
- Experience with the implementation and refinement of SOAR platforms is a significant plus
- The ability to think creatively to find elegant solutions to complex problems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Incident handling/response experience
- The desire to work both independently and collaboratively with a larger team
- A willingness to be challenged along with a strong appetite for learning
- 2-4 years of experience in Information Security, Incident Response, security automation, etc.
- Hands-on experience with common security technologies (IDS, Firewall, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, etc.)
- Knowledge of common security analysis tools & techniques
- Understanding of common security threats, attack vectors, vulnerabilities and exploits
- Knowledge of regular expressions
- Customer service focused and portrays energy, professionalism and welcoming characteristics
- Strong ability to work in a highly sensitive and confidential environment
- Ability to meet deadlines and handle sensitive and pressured situations
- Ability to identify issues and help develop strategy and tactical plans for various department initiatives
- Ability to use good judgment and decision-making skills
Education
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related/equivalent educational or work experience
- One or more of the following certifications: CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GPYC, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified Developer, Elastic Certified Engineer
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off
- Paid parental and caregiver leave
- Plus more! See benefits here for additional details.
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