
Security Engineer
Second Front Systems
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Colorado • District of Columbia • United States
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Salary
💰 $137,000 - $191,000 per year
About the role
- Design, develop, and deploy security automation and monitoring microservices in Go (Golang).
- Build and maintain security automation and monitoring solutions with a focus on Azure environments, leveraging tools such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Monitor, and Azure AD.
- Enhance and maintain SIEM integrations, log pipelines, and threat detection logic across AWS, Kubernetes, and application layers.
- Build infrastructure as code (IaC) with Pulumi in Go to securely deploy cloud-native services.
- Develop and maintain incident detection and response automation, integrating with tools such as AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Inspector, Wazuh, and others.
- Create and manage dashboards, alerts, and playbooks to support real-time monitoring and Blue Team operations.
- Support threat-hunting initiatives through custom log enrichment, alert tuning, and behavioral detection.
- Work closely with the other Security Engineers and the platform team to assess risk, harden configurations, and evolve security posture.
- Document architectures, detection logic, and operational procedures to ensure repeatability and scalability.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in DevSecOps, Blue Team engineering, or security automation.
- Strong experience developing tools and microservices in Go (Golang).
- Proficiency with Pulumi or similar Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks.
- Deep understanding of AWS security services, IAM, and networking fundamentals.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Proven ability to analyze logs, correlate events, and respond to incidents.
- Experience integrating or managing SIEMs (e.g., Wazuh, Elastic, Opensearch).
- Familiarity with threat detection, alerting, and response automation in cloud environments.
- DoD Secret Clearance (active or eligible).
- DoD 8570/8140 compliant IAT2
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- 100% Healthcare, vision and dental coverage
- 401(k) + 3% company contribution
- Equity incentive plan
- Tech + office supplies stipend
- Annual professional development stipend
- Flexible paid time off + federal holidays off
- Parental leave
- Work from anywhere
- Referral Bonus
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Hard Skills & Tools
GoGolangInfrastructure as CodePulumiAWSKubernetesDockerSIEMlog analysisincident response
Soft Skills
collaborationrisk assessmentconfiguration hardeningdocumentationproblem-solving
Certifications
DoD Secret ClearanceDoD 8570/8140 compliant IAT2