- Company Name
- Brex
- Job Title
- Senior Security Operations Engineer
- Job Description
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Job Title: Senior Security Operations Engineer
**Role Summary**
Lead the prevention, detection, and response of security threats across corporate and cloud environments. Design, build, and maintain security tools and systems, drive incident triage and remediation, and collaborate with engineering, operations, and governance teams to strengthen overall security posture.
**Expectations**
* 5+ years of experience in corporate security, detection & response, or infrastructure security.
* Proven incident response, threat hunting, and remediation skills.
* Strong background in CI/CD, DevOps workflows, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
* Practical coding experience in Go and Python.
* Ability to prioritize security issues against SLAs and engineering backlogs.
* Demonstrated collaboration across diverse teams with an MVP mindset.
**Key Responsibilities**
1. Conduct security incident response, investigation, remediation, and documentation.
2. Perform threat hunting and participate in periodic security exercises.
3. Design, scope, and develop features for corporate security, detection & response, and infrastructure security tools.
4. Maintain and enhance SIEM, SOAR, data pipelines, endpoint, email, and cloud security services.
5. Collaborate with engineering and operations to remediate security findings while managing prioritization.
6. Contribute to and manage the team’s open‑source project “Substation.”
7. Share knowledge through internal tech blog contributions and community engagement.
**Required Skills**
* Incident response and triage (SIEM, SOAR, SOCR).
* Threat hunting, vulnerability assessment, and security monitoring.
* CI/CD pipelines: Buildkite, Flux, Git, Terraform; and cloud environment operations.
* Programming: Go, Python (script and tool development).
* Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and documentation abilities.
* Effective communication, teamwork, empathy, and stakeholder coordination.
**Required Education & Certifications**
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience (5+ years).
* Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GCIH, or equivalent) are preferred but not mandatory.