Senior Security Engineer / Incident Response (26-00905) -

LeadStack Inc. is an award-winning, one of the nation's fastest-growing, certified minority-owned (MBE) staffing services provider of contingent workforce. As a recognized industry leader in contingent workforce solutions and Certified as a Great Place to Work, we're proud to partner with some of the most admired Fortune 500 brands in the world.

Job Title

Senior Security Engineer / Incident Response

Duration

12+ Months (Contract to Hire)

Location

Blue Ash, OH – Onsite

Pay Rate

$70-80/hr on w2

Job Description

To Vendors

• This is a 12+ month contract to hire opportunity, supporting Corporate Information Security.
• Candidates will be required to be on-site 5 days/week.
• This is a senior-level individual contributor role with no direct reports.
• Candidates should have directly relevant Security Operations and investigation experience. Lack of relevant hands-on experience will be a disqualifier.
• Pre-screen consists of 5 unique questions specific to the role

Job Description

The Senior Security Engineer will support day-to-day Security Operations, with a focus on investigating security events and responding to complex security incidents. This person will lead containment, eradication, and recovery efforts across endpoint, cloud, and identity-related incidents and serve as an escalation point for more complex security events.

This is a senior-level individual contributor role requiring strong Security Operations experience, critical thinking, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively in high-pressure situations. The ideal candidate will be able to break down complex technical information and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Security Operations, security investigations, and incident response
• Hands-on experience investigating and responding to security events and incidents
• Experience supporting containment, eradication, and recovery activities
• Experience with security alerts and detections
• Experience developing or maintaining security playbooks and/or runbooks
• Understanding of Security Operations tooling such as SIEM/SOAR, EDR, email security gateways, and firewalls
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down complex technical topics and communicate them clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated leadership within an individual contributor role
• Experience mentoring junior team members

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with detection engineering
• Experience with rule or alert tuning
• Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, including mapping security activity or detections to relevant tactics and techniques
• Experience with cloud environments such as Azure, GCP, or AWS
• Familiarity with Google Security Operations
• Experience contributing to tabletop exercises or security audits

Key Responsibilities

• Lead containment, eradication, and recovery efforts for endpoint, cloud, identity, and other security incidents
• Serve as an escalation point for complex security events and incidents
• Investigate security events and determine appropriate response actions
• Contribute to the development and improvement of security playbooks and runbooks
• Provide feedback to the Detection team to improve the quality of detections, enrichment, and automated response
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve logging visibility and response readiness
• Contribute to operational maturity through playbooks, mentoring, tabletop exercises, detections, and audits
• Mentor junior team members and help build their Security Operations capabilities
• Communicate technical information effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

To know more about current opportunities at LeadStack, please visit us at https://leadstackinc.com/careers/

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