Job description
Location: US Remote - Eastern and Central Timezone preferred
Description: Axonius is looking for a Senior Security Operations Engineer to join our dynamic cybersecurity team. As a Senior Security Operations Engineer, you will play a critical role in growing and maturing the operational aspects of our security program. Your work will directly impact all areas of our business.
Key Responsibilities:
Threat Detection and Incident Response:
- Investigate alerts and events that may have security implications.
- Respond to and coordinate cross-team efforts during potential security incidents.
- Design and implement threat detection, response, and hunting activities.
- Develop automation to reduce the likelihood of future incidents.
Security Engineering:
- Drive continuous improvement of security operations processes and tools, including tuning SIEM rules, enhancing SOAR playbooks, and optimizing incident response procedures.
- Implement, improve, and maintain code-driven detection and response capabilities of our SIEM platform.
- Advise internal stakeholders on security-related subjects, ranging from general OpSec to corporate application or infrastructure architecture.
- We eat our own dog food and use our own product, giving you the ability to provide feedback and contribute to product improvements.
Security Guidance and Oversight:
- Follow industry security trends, advisories, news, and general research, and advise stakeholders across the company on how to stay ahead of relevant security risks.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior security team members.
Qualifications:
Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience shaping and operating a security operations function in a modern, cloud and SaaS-heavy environment.
- Proven experience leading and managing security incidents from start to finish
- Proven experience with a broad range of security technologies.
- Strong networking and systems knowledge, including a strong understanding of macOS, Windows, and Linux internals.
Technical Skills:
- The ability to write scripts or software to automate security engineering tasks (Python-specific experience is a big plus).
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Familiarity with IaC tools; Terraform experience is a significant plus.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure engineering principles and experience with cloud platforms (AWS,GCP).
Soft Skills:
- Excellent organizational skills and strong ability to prioritize.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, especially in fast-moving, challenging situations.
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Axonius is committed to fair and equitable compensation packages. A candidate’s salary will be based on qualifications and relevant experience. In addition to a competitive salary, our packages include stock options, attractive benefits, and an annual bonus.
Annual Salary Range (does not include bonus or equity)
$180,000—$215,000 USD
A little more about Axonius:
Axonius transforms asset intelligence into intelligent action. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence. Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius covers the lifecycle of millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.
Axonius is named to the 2025 Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies and the 2024 Forbes Cloud 100. Axonius is recognized with the Great Place to Work Certification™ and for two years in a row, Axonius was ranked Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list. Axonius has been cited as the fastest-growing cybersecurity company in history by revenue.
At Axonius we support a diverse and inclusive workplace and believe in equal employment opportunity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives, regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, age, sex, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.
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