[Hiring] Senior Detection & Security Automation Engineer @Precisely US Jobs

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Detection & Security Automation Engineer to drive the evolution of our security monitoring, detection, and automation capabilities. This role will be responsible for:

• Expanding SIEM and SOAR capabilities
• Onboarding and optimizing security telemetry
• Improving detection coverage
• Conducting threat hunting activities
• Implementing strategies that improve operational effectiveness while controlling telemetry costs

This individual will serve as a senior technical resource and escalation point for security operations activities and will support FedRAMP-related security operations requirements.

What you will do:

• Lead administration, expansion, and optimization of the enterprise SIEM platform
• Develop and maintain SOAR workflows and security automation capabilities
• Design, onboard, and maintain log sources across cloud, infrastructure, identity, endpoint, and application environments
• Create, tune, and maintain detection content
• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities and serve as an escalation point for complex investigations
• Implement telemetry management, cost optimization, data fabric, and data lifecycle management capabilities
• Collaborate with IT, Networking, and Cloud Operations to improve security telemetry coverage, detection effectiveness, and incident response readiness
• Mentor team members and establish operational standards
• Support FedRAMP-related security operations activities
• Participate in the incident response on-call rotation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security or equivalent work experience will be accepted in place of the education requirement
• 5+ years of experience in SIEM/SOAR engineering
• Strong familiarity with Windows AD and Office 365 environments
• Cloud security monitoring and data fabric layer tooling
• Strong communication skills and working knowledge of software pipelines
• Travel is required: Approximately 5%

Requirements

• Experience assessing AI tools for security risk (data leakage, shadow AI, prompt injection)
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks and enterprise AI policies
• Uses AI for threat detection, log analysis, or security documentation
• Contributes to AI tool vetting processes

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting incident response investigations at enterprise scale
• Familiarity with Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, the Microsoft Defender suite
• Familiar with the major cloud providers and their services

Benefits

• This position is 100% remote anywhere in the US
• The Company advocates employee career development and encourages internal employment opportunities
• Open communication regarding career advancement promotes a positive working environment
• Both internal and external candidates are granted equal consideration for available employment opportunities