
Senior Security Engineer - Level 3
Ascendum System Private Limited
Job description
Candidates will be required to be on-site 5 days/week at Cincinnati, office. This is a senior-level individual contributor role with no direct reports.
About The Role
Candidates should have directly relevant Security Operations and investigation experience. Lack of relevant hands-on experience will be a disqualifier. The Senior Security Engineer will support day-to-day Security Operations, with a focus on investigating security events and responding to complex security incidents. This person will lead containment, eradication, and recovery efforts across endpoint, cloud, and identity-related incidents and serve as an escalation point for more complex security events. This is a senior-level individual contributor role requiring strong Security Operations experience, critical thinking, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively in high-pressure situations. The ideal candidate will be able to break down complex technical information and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
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Lead containment, eradication, and recovery efforts for endpoint, cloud, identity, and other security incidents
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Serve as an escalation point for complex security events and incidents
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Investigate security events and determine appropriate response actions
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Contribute to the development and improvement of security playbooks and runbooks
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Provide feedback to the Detection team to improve the quality of detections, enrichment, and automated response
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve logging visibility and response readiness
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Contribute to operational maturity through playbooks, mentoring, tabletop exercises, detections, and audits
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Mentor junior team members and help build their Security Operations capabilities
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Communicate technical information effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Qualifications
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Strong experience in Security Operations, security investigations, and incident response
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Hands-on experience investigating and responding to security events and incidents
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Experience supporting containment, eradication, and recovery activities
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Experience with security alerts and detections
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Experience developing or maintaining security playbooks and/or runbooks
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Understanding of Security Operations tooling such as SIEM/SOAR, EDR, email security gateways, and firewalls
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Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
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Ability to break down complex technical topics and communicate them clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
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Strong written and verbal communication skills
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Demonstrated leadership within an individual contributor role
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Experience mentoring junior team members
Required Skills
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Experience with detection engineering
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Experience with rule or alert tuning
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Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, including mapping security activity or detections to relevant tactics and techniques
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Experience with cloud environments such as Azure, GCP, or AWS
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Familiarity with Google Security Operations
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Experience contributing to tabletop exercises or security audits