Senior SOC Engineer

We are seeking a motivated and dynamic Senior Security Engineer to join our growing team at Inversion6.  This role is client-facing and involves a combination of onsite visits and remote support.  The successful candidate will help clients maintain, secure, and improve our clients’ security environments through proactive management, strategic implementation, and hands-on support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, configure, and maintain SIEM platforms to support client security monitoring and detection requirements.
• Onboard and manage log sources including servers, endpoints, network devices, cloud platforms, and security tools.
• Develop, tune, and optimize correlation rules, detections, and alert logic to reduce false positives and improve signal quality.
• Develop, tune, and optimize SOAR logic to increase automation and reduce manual effort where applicable.
• Investigate, validate, and escalate security alerts in collaboration with SOC analysts and incident response teams.
• Build dashboards, reports, and metrics to provide visibility into security posture, trends, and operational performance.
• Work with clients to understand their environments, threat landscape, and business requirements to align SIEM use cases accordingly.
• Develop and maintain SIEM automation, enrichment, and integrations with SOAR platforms and third party tools.
• Collaborate closely with Inversion6’s 24x7x365 Security Operations Center to support detection engineering and operational workflows.
• Document SIEM architectures, data sources, detections, and operational procedures.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives including use case lifecycle management and detection maturity.
• Serve as principal advisor to the Director, Security Operations in aligning platform/tooling capabilities with strategic business objectives.
• Assist with troubleshooting ingestion issues, performance concerns, and data quality problems.
• Participate in after-hours incident support and escalations as required.
• Provide technical guidance and support to SOC analysts and other engineering team members.
• Perform additional duties as directed. Ability to respond to emergency service calls outside of normally assigned work hours.
• Perform other duties as directed.

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in security engineering roles.
• Proficient in managing SIEM and SOAR environments.
• Effectively able to diagnose/troubleshoot on various technologies.
• Familiarity with common cybersecurity tools (e.g., Vulnerability Management - Nessus, Fortra … Security Awareness Platform - KnowBe4, Wizer, etc.).
• Understanding of cloud environments (Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS).
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues in both IT and security contexts.
• Excellent communication skills and client-facing demeanor.
• Strong documentation and organizational skills.
• Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to work independently and meet goals and objectives without constant supervision.
• Forward thinking abilities on how to help clients maintain, secure, automate, and improve their IT and security environments – and implement those changes.
• Ability to communicate with and understand the needs of non-technical constituents.
• A passion for continuous learning, innovation, and security automation.

Preferred Skills/Certifications:

•  Industry standard security certifications.
• Experience working in an MSSP or consulting environment.
• College degree in a related field (but not required).
• Basic Job Knowledge – understands theories, principles, procedures, systems, and techniques in the information systems security and controls field. Applies the knowledge and skills needed to do the job, including technical competence in one’s own field.  Demonstrates the ability to learn new material and information technology and uses it to enhance job-related skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft (MS) Office including Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint and other MS productivity tools including Visio.
• Problem Solving and Decision-Making Skills – processes information effectively to learn new material, identify and define problems and make decisions. Makes timely, sound decisions even under conditions of risk and uncertainty.
• Communication Skills – send and received information (written and oral) in a clear, accurate and effective manner. Openly shares appropriate information with other members of the organization.  Effective at transferring theory into understandable practical applications.
• Planning Skills – sets goals, develops strategies and schedules to meet those goals, and anticipates obstacles and alternative strategies. Helps coordinate activities of others to meet objectives efficiently and effectively. Effectively communicates to management when objections will not hit desired timelines and communicates new timelines to achieve the goals prior to the original delivery dates expiring.
• Analytical Ability/Perceptiveness – learns new material quickly, understands abstract concepts, recognizes subtle interrelationships and handles complexity.
• Teamwork/Work Relationships – interacts with others in ways that enhance understanding and respect. Perceives the needs of others, develops smooth relationships, and deals effectively with conflict.
• Customer Service Orientation – is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requests of internal and external customers; talks and acts with customers in mind.