[Hiring] Senior IT Security Operations Engineer @Lakeshore Learning Materials, LLC

Role Description

At Lakeshore, strong security comes from well-run tools and strong partnerships. We are currently seeking a Senior IT Security Operations Engineer to join our IT Security team. In this role, you will own the administration and optimization of the security tools that protect Lakeshore every day.

You’ll also contribute to preventative measures as our environment grows, investigate threats and drive remediation to closure, and collaborate with IT and business stakeholders to strengthen our overall security posture. When incidents happen, you’ll be ready to step in and help lead the response, with after-hours coverage shared across our team of five.

This is a fully remote, senior individual contributor role with plenty of influence. You’ll be the senior owner of our security tools, mentor our security analysts, advise leadership and be the go-to expert the team counts on. If you’re a well-rounded security engineer who wants your judgment to matter—and your work to protect a company that helps kids love learning—we’d like to talk.

A day on the job looks like this:

• Owning the administration and optimization of our security tools, including S1 and Tanium, Active directory, Okta, and M365, endpoint protection, incident detection and vulnerability management, and fine-tuning alerts and automation so the team can focus on what matters.
• Developing and implementing preventative security measures, from detection and monitoring to exploit prevention.
• Investigating threats and driving remediation efforts across IT and business teams, making sure fixes are completed and lessons are carried forward.
• Collaborating with IT and business stakeholders to identify gaps, recommend improvements and strengthen our overall security posture.
• Monitoring emerging threats, vulnerabilities and exploits, and translating what you learn into practical improvements to how we detect and prevent risk.
• Leading incident response when it’s needed, from first alert to resolution, and presenting clear findings and lessons learned to leadership.
• Mentoring and coaching our Information Security Analysts, and leading quarterly tabletop exercises and security awareness training that help employees spot and stop threats.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience in information security, including security operations, threat investigation or incident response.
• Preferred: Certifications such as CISSP.
• Ability to design security-relevant infrastructure as code (IaC).

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with S1 and Tanium, Active directory, Okta, and M365.
• Hands-on experience administering and optimizing security tools from third parties and cloud providers, such as endpoint protection, firewalls, IDS/IPS, vulnerability management, WAF and IAM.
• Experience with security platforms such as SIEM, EDR and SOAR.
• Experience securing AWS cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of security frameworks and best practices, including NIST, ISO and MITRE, plus NIST 800-53, PCI, CIS and CSA CCM.
• Comfortable scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash.
• Experience putting threat intelligence services to work in a production environment.

Benefits

• At Lakeshore, we pay local market wages for employees that reside within Los Angeles and Orange Counties. For employees residing outside of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, pay is based on national market.
• For this position, new employees joining Lakeshore are typically brought into the organization at a salary rate between $102,500-$165,000 depending on relevant experience & skillset.
• Bonus eligible.
• Paid leave for new parents to support work/life balance and family bonding.
• Excellent medical/dental and vision coverage—EPO, PPO and HSA.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution (because you will retire someday).
• Flexible benefits—choose what you like, ignore the rest.
• On-site preschool for our employees’ children.
• On-site employee gym for all levels/fitness needs.
• Generous employee discount.
• Casual dress…and we really mean it.