Security Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Security Engineer
Remote or Walnut Creek, CA or Chicago
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Position Summary:

We are seeking a Security Engineer with 4 years of security operations experience to serve as a hands-on technical contributor within our 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC). In this role you will be a core executor of our detection, investigation, and response capability, building AI-powered workflows, engineering detection content, and driving operational excellence in a SOX-regulated, SOC 2 Type 2 certified environment.

What You'll Do

• Triage, investigate, and respond to alerts across the SOC queue, hitting SLAs and following playbooks
• Lead incident investigations, gather evidence, correlate events, and coordinate containment and recovery
• Build and tune AI-assisted and agentic workflows across SIEM, SOAR, and EDR, including Claude via API
• Engineer detection content: rules, queries, and alert tuning mapped to MITRE Telecommunication&CK
• Write and maintain SOAR playbooks and automation scripts that cut manual toil and accelerate response
• Hunt for threats proactively, forming and testing hypotheses against current adversary TTPs
• Maintain the SOC technology stack: integrations, health, and content engineering across all platforms
• Keep SOX and SOC 2 Type 2 audit-ready evidence: logging coverage, incident records, and procedures
• Partner with IT, Cloud, Risk, and Compliance to embed telemetry and surface findings clearly

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 4 years of hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, or threat detection
• Deep expertise with SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, detection engineering, and incident response
• Experience writing SOAR playbooks and detection rules or queries in a major SIEM platform
• Experience operating in SOX and SOC 2 Type 2 environments, including control evidence and audit support
• Hands-on experience applying AI/LLMs to security operations or detection and response
• Strong communication skills with both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders

People's Skills

• Strong attention to detail with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proactive, self-motivated, and results-driven mindset
• Thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative, team-oriented environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Passion for continuous learning and staying current with emerging technologies

The salary range provided for this contract role represents our good faith estimate for this position. Within the range, individual offers will vary based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, technical and communication skills, location and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process (W2 or C2C). In addition to compensation, the company provides eligible W2 employees with a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package.

I.T. Solutions, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without 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.