Saviynt

Senior Principal Security Engineer

Saviynt

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $100,000 - $160,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design and maintain high-fidelity detection rules and analytics across the security stack (SIEM, EDR, CNAPP/CSPM) and cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Ability to run vulnerability scans, triage results, establish exploitability of reported vulnerabilities, recommend risk mitigation controls, and deploy controls where needed
  • Develop and refine automated response playbooks for Incident Response (IR) and orchestration (SOAR).
  • Lead the evaluation and integration of security technologies, ensuring scalability, resilience, and compliance as it pertains to FedRAMP environments.
  • Build and maintain our threat detection capabilities, from researching emerging TTPs to writing custom detection logic in our SIEM and EDR platforms.
  • Respond to alerts and triage findings coordinating across engineering, security, and leadership teams.
  • Architect and maintain automation to prioritize vulnerabilities (from Code, to Containers, to Cloud) based on risk and exploitability.
  • Design and lead hunt missions to identify threats that bypass traditional security controls, utilizing advanced forensics and log correlation techniques.
  • Incorporate industry news, events, IOCs, and other intelligence into our Detection and Response capabilities.

Requirements

  • U.S. Citizenship: Applicants must be United States citizens.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of 10 years of experience in Security Engineering, Security Architecture, Federal Security or similar
  • Knowledge of U.S. Federal Government security compliance, risk management processes and requirements, including NIST RMF and NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5 controls
  • Experience with vulnerability scanning, remediation, and continuous monitoring (ConMon)
  • Requires sufficient technical background to be able to interpret audit and compliance requirements, and be able to support basic evidence gathering needs in support of audits
  • Ability to provide excellent written and oral communications by email, presentations, and mobile communication platforms (including: experience facilitating discussions, briefing senior managers, and conducting project meetings).
  • Experience with continuous monitoring and Plans of Actions and Milestones (POA&Ms) is a plus
  • Knowledge of local legal and regulatory security requirements including HIPAA, FedRAMP, and GDPR/privacy
  • Flexible and collaborative approach to enabling and supporting the business
  • Meet US persons on US soil requirements
  • Undergo full background investigation/screening
  • Undergo IAL3 requirements (Identity proofing to include I-9 document verification, biometric collection, and mailing address confirmation)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
vulnerability scanningrisk mitigationincident responsesecurity orchestrationthreat detectionforensicslog correlationautomationcompliancesecurity architecture
Soft Skills
written communicationoral communicationcollaborationflexibilityleadershippresentation skillsfacilitationproject management