Staff Security Engineer - SecOps & Threats

6sense

5d•Remote

About The Position

As a member of 6sense’s Security department, the Security Operations and Threat Management team protects 6sense through prevention, detection, investigation, and response to business-impacting security events, incidents, and threats.

Requirements

5+ years of experience being part of a Security Operations or similar team
3+ years of experience developing automation
2+ years of experience conducting adversary emulation exercises
Experience with security tools and cloud environments (e.g., Vulnerability Scanners, SIEM, SOAR, AWS)
Experience with industry frameworks, regulations, and standards, such as: MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, PASTA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI, SOX, NIST, etc.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in a related field
Relevant industry certifications, such as CISSP, CISM, or GIAC, are highly desirable

Responsibilities

Execute on milestones for end-to-end SecOps & Threat initiatives in accordance with the Security roadmap
Identify and respond to complex security incidents, including system compromise, intrusion attempts, and/or denial of service attacks by conducting continuous monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and log analysis
Engage vendors, Infrastructure, IT, GRC, Cloud, and Application Security teams as required to validate alerts, ensure incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis
Research emerging threats, publicly disclosed vulnerabilities or attack vectors, and proactively push mitigating controls to products and services
Perform security forensics
Build security tools and advanced automation that enable the 6sense Security Team to operate at speed and scale
Propose, plan, lead, and execute threat exercises based on current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research
Mentor engineers across Information Security to drive security controls and risk remediation
Communicate risks and mitigations across multiple audiences with varying levels of sensitivity
Execute on quarterly individual Key Results that support team Objectives (OKRs)