Security Operations Engineer

Delinea•Redwood City, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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).

Responsibilities

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.