Senior Security Operations Engineer
Sword Health
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Design and continuously improve detection and alerting controls, ensuring high fidelity and contextual relevance to reduce noise and enable rapid response.
- Build, test, and automate incident response playbooks and runbooks, increasing efficiency and consistency across the incident lifecycle.
- Drive prioritization of alerts using a data-driven, scalable triage framework, aligned with business impact and threat context.
- Lead in-depth investigations, including root cause analysis and digital forensics, and convert findings into actionable insights to strengthen detection and resilience.
- Proactively engage in threat intelligence and threat hunting, identifying new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), enriching existing controls, and feeding insights into the detection pipeline.
- Own incident handling from detection to resolution, collaborating with engineering, IT, and business teams to contain, eradicate, and recover from threats.
- Define and maintain operational metrics for incident response, using them to drive continuous improvement in speed, accuracy, and organizational readiness.
Requirements
- Required: Public Trust Clearance
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent professional experience.
- Solid experience in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), with strong understanding of cloud-native threats.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation and tooling development.
- Hands-on experience with SOC tools and platforms, such as SIEM (Splunk, Sentinel, etc.), SOAR, EDR/XDR, and log management.
- Strong understanding of incident containment and eradication strategies, with proven ability to coordinate response with technical teams.
- Familiarity with security frameworks and standards (NIST 800-61, CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001).
- Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to consume and synthesize intelligence about actors, techniques or situations to identify emerging risk scenarios.
- Proficiency in process formulation and improvement.
- Background in threat modeling, adversary emulation, and risk-based alert tuning.
- Strong communicator with the ability to explain security risks and actions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proven track record of leading cross-functional efforts in high-pressure situations.
- Ability to foster collaboration across InfoSec, IT, and engineering teams.
- Forensics experience, investigating incidents and preserving digital evidence.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance*
- Life and AD&D Insurance*
- Financial advisory services*
- Supplemental Insurance Benefits (Accident, Hospital and Critical Illness)*
- Health Savings Account*
- Equity shares*
- Discretionary PTO plan*
- Parental leave*
- 401(k)
- Flexible working hours
- Remote-first company
- Paid company holidays
- Free digital therapist for you and your family
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud environmentsAWSGCPAzurescripting languagesPythonBashSOC toolsSIEMforensics
Soft Skills
analytical skillscritical thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationleadershipprocess improvementability to synthesize intelligenceability to coordinate responseability to explain security risks
Certifications
Public Trust ClearanceBachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity