IT Security Engineer – Operations

Centerline Logistics Corporation

IT Security & Operations Engineer overseeing security operations and incident response. Ensuring a secure IT environment during significant system transformation for a marine logistics company.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeSeattle • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $105,000 - $125,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Monitor and triage security alerts, logs, and suspicious activity across endpoint, email, and identity tools.
Investigate, contain, and help recover from security incidents and escalated operational issues.
Maintain and improve detection rules, alerting, response workflows, and security documentation.
Administer and optimize security platforms, including Microsoft Defender, email security, MFA, and related tools.
Review and strengthen access controls, privileged accounts, endpoint posture, and system hardening.
Lead remediation of security gaps and support audits, compliance activities, and policy enforcement.
Serve as a Tier 3 escalation point for complex server, endpoint, identity, and network issues.
Support infrastructure maintenance, patching, and operational stability during periods of change.
Perform root cause analysis, corrective actions, and ongoing risk reduction across the environment.
Partner with infrastructure, helpdesk, and business systems teams to embed security into new systems, integrations, and operations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–8+ years in IT infrastructure, systems administration, or security-focused roles.
Experience with security operations, incident response, and operational troubleshooting.
Hands-on administration of endpoint, email, and identity security tools.
Strong troubleshooting skills across Windows systems, identity, endpoints, and basic networking.
Knowledge of risk identification, remediation, and security best practices.
Familiarity with Microsoft security technologies, including Defender and Entra ID.
Experience with email security platforms such as Mimecast or similar tools.
Understanding of identity and access management, including MFA, RBAC, and privileged access.
Ability to support environments undergoing infrastructure or system change.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D options to our employees and their eligible dependents after meeting Company requirements.
401(k) options.
Disability Insurance.
Sick pay.
Vacation pay.
10 paid holidays per calendar year (subject to work schedule).
Healthcare and/or Dependent Care FSAs are also available to our employees after meeting Company requirements.

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Hard Skills & Tools

security operationsincident responseoperational troubleshootingendpoint securityemail securityidentity securityrisk identificationremediationsystem hardeningnetwork troubleshooting

Soft Skills

troubleshootinganalytical skillsproblem-solvingcross-functional communication