Senior Security Engineer (SecOps)
jobgether
Ireland
Full-time
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Accountabilities
- Design and establish a centralized Security Operations model, including process ownership, escalation paths, service-level expectations, incident workflows, reporting frameworks, and post-incident review practices.
- Build and maintain SIEM and log management capabilities, ensuring centralized log collection, normalization, retention policies, access controls, monitoring coverage, and audit readiness.
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve detection rules and alerting mechanisms across authentication systems, IAM platforms, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, databases, applications, and endpoints.
- Lead incident response activities, including investigation, containment, eradication, recovery, evidence collection, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Automate operational security processes such as alert enrichment, ticket creation, incident notifications, account containment, endpoint isolation, and response orchestration.
- Collaborate with IT and infrastructure teams to strengthen endpoint security through device management, encryption, patching, firewall controls, compliance monitoring, and endpoint protection technologies.
- Partner with engineering, platform, compliance, legal, and management teams to support logging strategies, vulnerability management, policy development, audit preparation, and security governance initiatives.
- Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of security monitoring capabilities, operational efficiency, and organizational cyber resilience.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Security Operations, Security Engineering, or a related cybersecurity role, with a focus on building or improving SecOps processes in production environments.
- Strong experience implementing, managing, or optimizing SIEM and log management platforms, including log collection, parsing, normalization, correlation, alerting, dashboard creation, and retention management.
- Practical experience working with cloud and infrastructure security logs, including cloud audit trails, security monitoring services, network flow logs, authentication events, and application activity logs.
- Demonstrated expertise in designing detection rules, correlation logic, and alerting strategies based on real-world threat scenarios and attack techniques.
- Strong understanding of security monitoring frameworks, adversary tactics, detection engineering principles, and incident response lifecycles.
- Experience with endpoint security technologies such as EDR, XDR, antivirus solutions, mobile device management, endpoint compliance controls, and device hardening practices.
- Solid knowledge of identity and access management, authentication systems, network security concepts, and common attacker behaviors.
- Proficiency in scripting or automation using Python, Bash, Go, or similar languages for integrations, alert enrichment, reporting, and incident response workflows.
- Ability to work independently, drive initiatives from concept to implementation, prioritize effectively, and communicate complex security topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with a proactive and ownership-driven mindset.
- Experience in regulated industries, security automation platforms, digital forensics, Zero Trust architectures, compliance frameworks, or cloud security environments is considered an advantage.
Benefits
- Fully remote work environment with flexibility to work from a location that suits your needs.
- Opportunity to build and shape security operations processes with a high degree of ownership and autonomy.
- Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies, scalable infrastructure, and advanced cybersecurity challenges.
- Career development opportunities through structured performance reviews, mentorship programs, and professional growth initiatives.
- Dedicated learning budget for courses, certifications, workshops, and continuous education.
- Access to corporate language learning programs and knowledge-sharing resources.
- Comprehensive health insurance coverage and additional well-being support programs.
- Monthly flexible benefits allowance that can be used for hobbies, sports, wellness, or personal interests.
- Paid annual leave, public holidays, and sick leave to support a healthy work-life balance.
- Participation in team events, workshops, networking opportunities, and company gatherings.
- Collaborative, transparent, and innovation-driven culture that encourages initiative, continuous improvement, and professional growth.
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