Senior Security Engineer
Core
Monitor, investigate, and respond to security activity across cloud, identity, endpoint, and Linux-based environments.
Role type
Senior Security Engineer (Incident Response & Cloud Security)
Builds
Security monitoring, incident response, and automated security tooling for cloud and on-prem environments.
Domain
Cloud Security / Cybersecurity Operations
Required skills
Cloud security (AWS), Scripting (Python/Bash/PowerShell), SIEM platforms (Splunk/Chronicle/Sentinel), Linux/Windows systems administration, Active Directory, Log analysis, Incident response, IAM, Network security
Preferred skills
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security, Kubernetes, Container security, Security automation, Git/GitHub
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Splunk, Chronicle, Sentinel, Active Directory, Linux, Windows, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Kubernetes (via careerplan.io/jobs/23533-senior-security-engineer-at-brandwatch)
Responsibilities
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.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
