Security Operations Engineer

Security Operations Engineer

Delinea's Cybersecurity organization is seeking a skilled Security Operations Engineer with experience designing, building, and automating security capabilities within a distributed security operations environment. This role will be engaged in engineering and optimizing security tooling and capabilities such as endpoint security, data loss prevention, email security, and network security. The successful candidate will apply strong technical and engineering skills to build scalable security solutions that identify and neutralize threats across diverse systems.

This is a remote role that is based in the United States and reports to the Security Operations Manager with work hours of 9 AM - 6 PM local time.

What You'll Do:

• Engineer and maintain security operations platforms (SIEM, EDR, NDR, email, cloud); building detection rules, automated playbooks, and integrations

• Apply a detections-as-code approach; version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and tuned against alert quality metrics

• Architect and implement security engineering capabilities, including endpoint security, data loss prevention, email security, network security, SIEM enhancements, detection engineering, and security automation.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed security controls into business processes.

• Research, evaluate, and operationalize security products and services (including AI enabled platforms), building proof-of-concept integrations, provide recommendations or deferrals on adoption, and driving adoption across the security stack.

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (or equivalent)

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in a security engineering or security operations role

• Demonstrated working experience at the enterprise level with one or more of the following: security information and event management, endpoint detection and response, network detection and response, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, security awareness, data loss prevention, firewalls, and email security.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation languages (Python, PowerShell, or Bash) for developing security tools and automating repetitive tasks.

• Proficient in spoken and written English.

We'd Love to See:

• Security and/or technical industry certifications (ISC2, GIAC, EC-Council, ISACA, CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft)

• Experience with digital forensic, privileged access management, and penetration testing tools

• Demonstrated working experience at the enterprise level with one or more of: SIEM, EDR, NDR, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, security awareness, DLP, firewalls, and email security.

• Experience working within common regulatory and statutory requirements (GDPR, CCPA, SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST).

• Experience with cloud security platforms and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure DevOps or similar).

For this job, Delinea is not considering candidates that need any type of US work authorization now or in the future. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J1, etc.

Why work at Delinea?

• We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

• We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.

• What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do

• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments

• Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team

• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through

• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.