Senior SecOps Engineer - Dallas

Island•Coppell, TX

2h•Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Security Operations Engineer at Island, you will serve as the security anchor for US operations, owning incident response, cloud security posture, vulnerability management, and FedRAMP compliance across commercial and GovCloud environments. You will work as the US-side peer to the global SecOps Lead, handling day-to-day execution and driving longer-term improvements to detection, triage, and risk remediation across the stack. The role is based in Dallas, Texas, and is open to US citizens who can work in FedRAMP-regulated environments.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in security operations, with hands-on depth in at least two of incident response, cloud security posture, and vulnerability management.
Demonstrated incident response experience, including leading triage and containment under pressure, writing clear timelines, and conducting post-mortems.
Solid AWS knowledge, including IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty.
Ability to communicate across asynchronous and synchronous channels and translate technical findings into business risk for engineering leads and senior stakeholders.
US citizenship.
Ability to work in FedRAMP-regulated environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience with GCP or Azure.
Hands-on CSPM experience, preferably Wiz.
Scripting ability and a mindset for reducing manual overhead and building durable workflows.

Responsibilities

Lead US-timezone incident response, including triage, containment, investigation, stakeholder communication, and post-incident reviews.
Manage and improve cloud security posture across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including remediation of Wiz findings, IAM exposure, and misconfigurations, as well as cloud detection engineering.
Own vulnerability management across web, infrastructure, and container environments, including prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting.
Drive FedRAMP continuous monitoring for GovCloud environments, including evidence collection, POA&M tracking, audit support, and compliance operations aligned with NIST 800-53.
Partner with the global SecOps Lead on team strategy, tooling decisions, risk identification, and security improvement initiatives.