Sr. Information Security Engineer - Incident Response

Save A Lot•Saint Ann, MO

About The Position

This role is responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise-wide IT security infrastructure to ensure the security, integrity, and availability of the company’s information assets. This includes the rigorous application of information security and information assurance policies, principles, and practices, with a strong emphasis on Incident Response readiness and operational execution. The position will lead efforts to detect, analyze, contain, eradicate, and recover from security incidents while continuously improving response processes, tooling, playbooks, and defensive capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in information systems, or related field, OR 5-7 years of experience in the information security field
Relevant Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, and AZ-500
Demonstrate good judgment in solving problems, identifying problems in advance, and proposing solutions
Strong analytical and organizational skills, with attention to detail
Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to multi-task, prioritizing multiple objectives and initiatives
Able to work in a team environment and with a diverse group
Ability to travel up to ~10% of the time, which may include weekends and evenings, as needed
Most work is performed in a temperature-controlled environment
Incumbent may sit for long periods of time at a desk or computer terminal
Incumbent may use calculators, keyboards, telephone and other office equipment in the course of a normal workday
Stooping, bending, twisting and reaching may be required in completion of job duties
Ability to demonstrate, understand and apply our workplace values.
Simplicity (operate) – the drive to identify root cause and innovate to remove complexity to deliver the best outcome
Heart (emotion) – the passion that drives you to get up every day and work hard to strive for excellence
Performance Excellence (mindset) – clearly defining high expectations, driving ownership of key roles and responsibilities, executing with integrity and emphasis while creating a culture of accountability
Respect (philosophy) – taking pride in being inclusive and treating everyone who comes through the doors with respect

Responsibilities

Provide efficient and effective Infrastructure Security Operations Support of all supported infrastructure security components
Investigate and analyze common security incidents, including malware infections, phishing attempts, unauthorized access, and suspicious network activity.
Develop, maintain, and optimize Incident Response playbooks and SOPs to ensure consistent, efficient detection, containment, eradication, and recovery processes.
Collaborate closely with the MSSP to refine detection use cases, validate alerts, coordinate response actions, and improve overall SOC effectiveness.
Drive containment and remediation efforts during active security events, working with cross‑functional teams to minimize impact and ensure rapid recovery.
Support and enhance email security controls, including phishing analysis, message tracing, and mail flow/security policy tuning.
Participate in an on‑call rotation to provide timely response during off-hours incidents.
Conduct root‑cause analysis and produce post‑incident reports, identifying gaps and recommending improvements to tooling, processes, and security posture.
Assist in threat hunting activities to proactively identify emerging threats or abnormal behaviors in the environment.
Contribute to continuous improvement of logging, monitoring, and alerting across security platforms.
Provide timely and effective maintenance and repair support on all supported infrastructure security components
Conduct efficient security monitoring of all supported infrastructure security components to include but not limited to firewalls and intrusion detection/prevention systems
Ensure effective change control and configuration management of all supported infrastructure security-related components to establish and maintain consistency of their performance and functional and physical attributes
Develop and execute advanced automation and orchestration activities as applicable across several information security domains
Some familiarity administering the following technology stack: Splunk, Microsoft Azure and Defender, CheckPoint Firewall/Email, and Imperva WAF.
Manage risk identification within the technical architecture in partnership with infrastructure teams
Keep abreast of and gain expertise in the evolving technology and understand how new technologies could be applied to our security environment
Research, test and understand the relevant products and product capability
Participate in the vendor community on relevant products and product capability
Work under the guidance from more senior information security engineers
Mentors’ junior information security engineers