CareerPlan

Senior Security Engineer, Operations

Los AngelesFull-time$150k2026-08-19 → 2026-11-10
U.S. persons only (export control)

Core

Own detection and response for the corporate environment, running SIEM, triaging alerts, and driving incidents from signal through containment and remediation.

Role type

Senior Security Operations Engineer (Detection & Response)

Builds

Detection content, response playbooks, automation, and incident response capabilities for corporate security

Domain

Cybersecurity, Corporate Security Operations

Required skills

SIEM administration and tuning, incident command and response, detection-as-code, threat hunting, adversary emulation, forensic analysis, scripting/automation, MITRE ATT&CK knowledge

Preferred skills

Cloud detection and response, threat intelligence, malware analysis, reverse engineering, defense/aerospace environment experience

Technologies

Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, Panther, Chronicle, SOAR, Python, Go, C++, Rust, AWS, Azure, GCP

Responsibilities

Administer and mature the SIEM, write and maintain detection content using detection-as-code, act as incident commander, build response playbooks and automation, perform threat hunting and adversary emulation, conduct host/network/cloud forensics, investigate phishing and insider risk, partner with IT to harden controls, translate findings into vulnerability management priorities, participate in on-call rotation, mentor junior members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC