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MaximaTek lists this Security Engineer Level 3 opportunity in blue ash, Ohio. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Alternate Title: Senior Security Engineer / Incident Response
Job Duration: 12 + Months
Job Category: Engineer
Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire; Work Location
Preferences: Onsite Location: BTC - 11450 Grooms Road, Blue Ash, OH, 45242, US
Number of Positions: 1
Client: Kroger
Rate: $60 on W2
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
NOTES:
This is a 12+ month contract-to-hire opportunity, supporting Corporate Information Security for KTD.
Candidates will be required to be on-site 5 days/week at the BTC (11450 Grooms Road, Blue Ash, OH, 45242).
Preference for local candidates. If not local but can relocate on day 1, please indicate in the summary.
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.
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