Security Operations Engineer II

At Axon were on a mission to Protect Life. Were explorers pursuing societys most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products we work better together. We connect with candor and care seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced challenging and meaningful. Here youll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

As a Security Operations Engineer II you will be an engineer-first member of Axons Security Operations Center the team that monitors investigates and responds to security events across Axons corporate cloud and regulated SaaS environments which serve public safety agencies and enterprises around the world. You will respond to alerts triage incidents and participate in the on-call rotation and use what you learn about day-to-day SOC operations to automate the repetitive work that slows response. You will build automation playbooks tool integrations and threat detections and lead incidents from initial findings through root cause analysis and remediation turning each one into better detections and playbooks. As automation takes over repeat work more of your time goes to building the capabilities that let the SOC scale with Axons growth.

Location:Onsite at our Scottsdale AZ or Seattle WA office
Reports to: Manager Information Security Engineering
Direct Reports:None

• Investigate and respond to security alerts security tickets and user-reported phishing as part of the teams shared queue rotation.
• Participate in the on-call rotation investigating containing and coordinating escalated security events such as exposed credentials data spillage suspicious account activity and cloud account compromise.
• Own incidents through to closure: timeline root cause remediation tracking and a detection or playbook update so the same issue is caught faster next time.
• Identify repetitive manual work and replace it with automation such as phishing triage and enrichment offboarding verification vulnerability remediation tracking and bulk ticket handling.
• Write tune and document detections against security logs retire noisy alerts and write a runbook for every alert you ship.
• Support identity and access operations including offboarding access requests and access reviews and automate the checks that keep them reliable.
• Produce audit and compliance evidence and automate its collection wherever possible.

• Design build and operate security automation using version control code review testing and CI/CD including automation playbooks chat-based workflows and services that connect security tools.
• Integrate security identity IT service management and cloud platforms through their APIs handling authentication and secrets securely.
• Own the detection lifecycle: onboard new log sources write and tune detections find coverage gaps and manage detections as code.
• Deploy and maintain the cloud infrastructure behind security tooling using infrastructure-as-code and least-privilege design.
• Build detections and automation that meet strict data-handling and compliance requirements.
• Turn incident lessons into reusable playbooks templates and tooling that make response consistent across the team.
• Evaluate new security tooling including automation platforms and AI-assisted triage for fit security and licensing and take selected tools into production.
• Measure team workload and the time automation saves and report metrics that show where to invest next.
• Partner with senior team members on platform design decisions while assisting more junior team members with scripting and automation.

• 2 years of experience in security engineering SOC or detection engineering or software or infrastructure roles with a security focus.
• Strong skills in python shell scripting git and experience shipping and maintaining production code.
• Hands-on incident response and alert triage experience and comfort participating in an on-call rotation.
• Experience with a SIEM log analytics platform or SOAR or workflow automation platform.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms identity providers endpoint detection and response (EDR) and REST APIs and authentication.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with Git-based collaborative development including branching pull requests and code review.
• Experience building and maintaining production CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and application design with a habit of writing maintainable tested code.
• Familiarity with secure development practices such as dependency scanning secrets scanning and managing secrets in pipelines.
• Clear written communication for runbooks incident timelines and audit evidence.
• Must be able to pass a standard FBI background check for access to Criminal Justice Information Systems.

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical Dental Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• And yes we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

Dont meet every single requirement Thats ok. At Axon we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If youre excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification listed here we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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