Overview
Security Engineer role at Semperis – join our security operations team with a strong focus on detection and response. This is a unique opportunity to leverage threat detection and response experience and build foundational systems and services to keep our infrastructure free from malicious actors and threats. You will partner closely with engineering teams, IT administrators, and compliance analysts to maintain visibility into our environments and develop programs to ensure environments are secure. Tooling and automation will be key as we scale to meet customer demand.
What You Will Do
- Collaborate with different teams for building and setting up pipelines needed to gather relevant security telemetry.
- Build and maintain an effective and scalable security monitoring infrastructure solution.
- Develop detection strategies to identify anomalous activity and ensure critical infrastructure and services operate securely.
- Triage alerts and drive security incidents to closure while reducing potential impact to Semperis.
- Build processes and workflows to triage security alerts and respond to real incidents.
- Research new threat attack vectors and ensure detection and response capability aligns with the current threat landscape.
- Proactively improve the quality of detection rules and work with engineering teams to eliminate classes of issues.
- Contribute to strategy, risk management, and prioritization for detection and response efforts.
- Collaborate with the compliance team to maintain and audit security controls and processes, ensuring compliance with relevant frameworks and certifications.
- Implement pragmatic, business-focused controls to safeguard the companycts multi-cloud entities.
What You Will Bring
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Strong domain knowledge in security incident detection and response with ability to optimize SOC effectiveness.
- Experience with incident response and containment practices, preferably in a cloud-first environment.
- Hands-on experience instrumenting and deploying telemetry solutions.
- Experience with logging and security event management, including SIEM/SOAR platforms (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, SolarWinds, Trellix, and similar).
- Experience managing CNAPP platforms (e.g., WIZ, Orca, Defender, Singularity) or similar solutions.
- Ability to script or code in Python, PowerShell, or JavaScript.
- Proficiency in automation using tools like Logic Apps, Azure Functions, AWS Lambda, and Runbooks.
- Strong experience analyzing IAM configurations across multi-cloud/multi-account environments; detecting breaches and responding in real time.
- Decision-maker with the ability to operate with autonomy.
- Experience working with distributed teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and workload.
- Experience or familiarity with DevOps practices and Agile methodologies is a plus.
- Experience with cloud deployments in AWS, GCP, or Azure is a plus.
Location and Work Model
Dallas Hybrid Required. We are unable to sponsor; US Citizenship required.
Why Join Semperis
You’ll be part of a global team on the front lines of cybersecurity innovation. Semperis values curiosity, integrity, and initiative, and supports a healthy work-life balance.
Equal Opportunity
Semperis is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, citizenship, marital status, or any other legally protected basis. Reasonable accommodation is available under the Americans with Disabilities Act and other laws. Please contact the Global Recruiting team if you need assistance completing the application.