Job Title: Senior Security Engineer / Incident Response

Duration: 12+ Months (Contract to Hire)

Location: Blue Ash, OH – Onsite

Pay Rate: $70-80/hr on w2

Job Description:

To Vendors

· This is a 12+ month contract to hire opportunity, supporting Corporate Information Security.

· Candidates will be required to be on-site 5 days/week.

· This is a senior-level individual contributor role with no direct reports.

· Candidates should have directly relevant Security Operations and investigation experience. Lack of relevant hands-on experience will be a disqualifier.

· Pre-screen consists of 5 unique questions specific to the role

Job Description

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.

Requirements:

· Strong experience in Security Operations, security investigations, and incident response

· Hands-on experience investigating and responding to security events and incidents

· Experience supporting containment, eradication, and recovery activities

· Experience with security alerts and detections

· Experience developing or maintaining security playbooks and/or runbooks

· Understanding of Security Operations tooling such as SIEM/SOAR, EDR, email security gateways, and firewalls

· Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills

· Ability to break down complex technical topics and communicate them clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

· Strong written and verbal communication skills

· Demonstrated leadership within an individual contributor role

· Experience mentoring junior team members

Nice-to-Haves:

· Experience with detection engineering

· Experience with rule or alert tuning

· Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, including mapping security activity or detections to relevant tactics and techniques

· Experience with cloud environments such as Azure, GCP, or AWS

· Familiarity with Google Security Operations

· Experience contributing to tabletop exercises or security audits

Key Responsibilities

· Lead containment, eradication, and recovery efforts for endpoint, cloud, identity, and other security incidents

· Serve as an escalation point for complex security events and incidents

· Investigate security events and determine appropriate response actions

· Contribute to the development and improvement of security playbooks and runbooks

· Provide feedback to the Detection team to improve the quality of detections, enrichment, and automated response

· Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve logging visibility and response readiness

· Contribute to operational maturity through playbooks, mentoring, tabletop exercises, detections, and audits

· Mentor junior team members and help build their Security Operations capabilities

· Communicate technical information effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

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