What are the responsibilities and job description for the Security Operations Engineer position at Vallen Distribution?
Why Join Our Team?
At Vallen, we embrace what makes us unique. We thrive on the diversity of our associates and the different ways each of us contributes to Vallen's success. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive company that values the growth of our associates. When you join Vallen, you become part of our winning team. Our vast network of connections is here to help you transform your job into a career. Vallen is an industry leader in delivering flexible supply chain solutions while creating value for our customers, our supply partners, and our associates.
Benefits at Vallen
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance for Single, Employee Spouse or Children, and Family Coverage
- 401(k) with discretionary company match of $0.50 on the $1.00 up to 6% of pay (U.S. positions only)
- Employer-paid Basic Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and Dependents
- Employer-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Benefits and Parental Leave (and any leave required under federal, state, and local laws)
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Time Off (Vacation and Sick Days): 80-160 hours of vacation time based on seniority, accrued monthly and prorated from date of hire. 40-56 hours of sick time per year based on seniority and advanced upon hire.
- Paid Time Off (Holidays): 8 scheduled holidays plus 2 floating holidays
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Resource Groups for networking and team building
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Employee Referral Program
- Safety shoe and safety glasses reimbursement (based on position)
- Employee discounts through BenefitHub
- Advancement opportunities
- Vallen complies with all minimum wage laws
- We accept applications on an ongoing basis
Position Summary:
The Security Operations Engineer is responsible for supporting and enhancing the organization's security operations and engineering capabilities. This role blends hands-on threat detection and incident response with security platform administration, automation, and continuous improvement. The position plays a critical role in maintaining the health and effectiveness of the enterprise security stack, strengthening identity and cloud security controls, and ensuring the organization's ability to detect, respond to, and mitigate evolving cyber threats.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support daily security operations through proactive threat hunting across endpoint, network, identity, email, and cloud environments.
- Support investigation and response activities for high-confidence alerts using behavioral analytics, threat intelligence, and MITRE ATT&CK-aligned analysis.
- Manage and maintain detection pipelines, correlation rules, and automated response workflows across SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, and email security platforms.
- Act as subject matter expert for the enterprise security stack, ensuring platform health, optimization, and continuous improvement.
- Administer and support identity and access management (IAM) controls, including conditional access, role-based access control (RBAC), and Zero Trust enforcement across enterprise platforms.
- Support the vulnerability management program through risk analysis, remediation coordination, validation of security fixes, and translation of findings into actionable guidance for infrastructure and development teams.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, and development teams to improve security posture and remediate identified risks.
- Enforce system baseline hardening standards across Windows, Linux, macOS, and Azure services.
- Support compliance initiatives by maintaining documentation, gathering audit evidence, and contributing to alignment with applicable security frameworks.
- Develop and maintain clear operational documentation, playbooks, and procedures to enhance response consistency and cross-team collaboration.
- Continuously monitor the threat landscape and adjust detection and response capabilities accordingly.
- Other duties assigned by departmental leadership.
Job Qualifications:
- Education requirement: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Relevant experience should include:
- 5 years in a technical security role (SOC Tier 2/3, security engineering, incident response, or equivalent).
- Hands-on experience with SIEM (e.g., Sentinel, Splunk), EDR/XDR (e.g., SentinelOne, Defender), and SOAR platforms.
- Proficiency in PowerShell and Bash scripting with practical experience automating security and system administration tasks.
- Experience administering Microsoft platforms (Microsoft 365, Windows 11, Active Directory, Azure, Intune, Entra, Defender, etc.).
- Experience with threat detection engineering and mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK.
- Familiarity with secure baselining (CIS/NIST), access controls, and platform hardening.
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