Security Engineer
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$ 89000 - 105000
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Job Description
How youll make an impact:
Were looking for a hands-on Security Engineer to help protect Stratas systems data and this individual-contributor role youll monitor and triage alerts investigate and respond to incidents tune and operate security tooling and drive continuous improvements through detection hardening and automation. Youll collaborate closely with IT Cloud/DevOps and GRC teams to reduce risk and strengthen Stratas overall security posture. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Monitoring & Detection
- Operate and tune SIEM to improve signal quality (detections correlation rules dashboards data health).
- Maintain log source onboarding and coverage across endpoints network identity and cloud.
- Perform hypothesis-driven threat hunting using MITRE ATT&CK and available telemetry.
- Develop detections and enrichment pipelines; document runbooks and response playbooks.
- Monitor tune and explain CSPM to stakeholders
- Monitor and tune Antivirus tooling
- Incident Response
- Triage alerts scope incidents and execute containment eradication and recovery activities.
- Perform host network and cloud investigations; collect and preserve evidence.
- Produce clear incident reports and post-incident reviews; implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for high-priority security events.
- Vulnerability & Patch Management
- Run and tune vulnerability scans; validate findings and track remediation through closure.
- Prioritize using risk-based approaches (e.g. exploitability criticality exposure).
- Provide actionable remediation guidance to system owners and verify fixes.
- Security Engineering & Automation
- Deploy maintain and optimize security controls (EDR IDS/IPS email security WAF DLP CASB secrets management).
- Build lightweight automations and integrations (e.g. SOAR Python/PowerShell APIs) to reduce MTTD/MTTR.
- Contribute to hardening baselines (e.g. CIS NIST) and secure configuration across operating systems identity and network.
- Cloud & Application Security
- Monitor and investigate security events across AWS/Azure/GCP (e.g. CloudTrail/Activity Logs workload telemetry).
- Support guardrails and policy as code assist with IaC scanning secrets hygiene and CI/CD security where applicable.
- Governance Risk & Compliance Support
- Help maintain documentation asset inventories and control evidence for audits (e.g. SOC 2 HIPAA PCI-DSS ISO 27001).
- Track and report security operations metrics (coverage detection efficacy MTTD/MTTR).
- Collaboration & Communication
- Partner with IT Cloud/DevOps Compliance Legal and business teams to remediate findings and implement controls.
- Create clear user-facing guidance and knowledge base articles; contribute to tabletop exercises and training.
What were looking for:
- 25 years of experience in security operations incident response or blue team roles.
- Hands-on experience with SIEM (e.g. Splunk Rapid7) EDR (e.g. CrowdStrike SentinelOne Carbon Black) and vulnerability management (e.g. Tenable Qualys).
- Working knowledge of Windows Linux and macOS internals; common network protocols; identity systems (e.g. Okta/AD/Azure AD); and email security.
- Experience monitoring and investigating security events in public cloud (AWS Azure or GCP).
- Familiarity with frameworks and models such as NIST CSF CIS Controls and MITRE ATT&CK.
- Scripting ability in Python or PowerShell; version control familiarity (e.g. Git).
- Strong analytical documentation and cross-team communication skills.
Youll really wow us with:
- Experience with SOAR platforms (e.g. XSOAR Tines) SIEM content engineering and threat intel enrichment.
- Exposure to forensics tooling (e.g. KAPE Velociraptor Volatility) and packet analysis.
- Experience supporting audits and evidence collection for SOC 2 HIPAA PCI-DSS or ISO 27001.
- Certifications such as GSEC GCIA GCED GCIH GCFA/GCFE OSCP CEH or equivalent.
Estimated Salary Range: $
Actual salary will be determined based on factors including but not limited to skill set and level of experience. This salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Strata also provides discretionary variable pay programs based on addition Strata provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits health and welfare benefits paid time off parental leave life and accident insurance and other voluntary and well-being benefits.
Find out more about Strata benefitshere.
How we work:
The preferred location for this role is in Chicago IL or St. Louis MO. We value our people spending time together and have campuses hosting in-person events located in both are truly a hybrid environment with all team members experiencing the flexibility to work from home.
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Here @ Strata
Our culture is driven by our people solving problems together. We embrace learning collaboration and continuous career growth. Together we lift our customers our products our company and our community.
We believe that each of our team members unique perspectives and experiences is what drives innovation and positive change. Our individual differences are what make us a more forward-thinking organization. We foster a culture of inclusion equity and belonging regardless of race religion disability sex sexual orientation gender identity or national origin.
Our Core Values:
While we celebrate what makes each member of our team unique our core values are what connect us. They set clear expectations for how we approach our work and how each of us can positively influence the experience of our team and our customers.
- We connect with positive intent.
- We are helpful.
- We own it.
- We get better every day.
- We are humble.
Employment Type
Full Time
