Alpaca - Security Operations Engineer

• We are seeking a Security Operations Engineer to own the daily operation and continuous improvement of Alpaca’s SIEM and SOAR capabilities. You will onboard security logs, develop and tune detections, keep alerts actionable, maintain operational dashboards, and automate repeatable response actions. • You will be hands-on and operationally minded. You will keep log onboarding, detection quality, and alert handling consistent, and you will turn security signals into action as the business grows. • This role reports to the Enterprise Security Architect and works closely with Security, IT, DevOps, and Engineering. • The Security Team is 100% distributed and remote. • Things You Get To Do: • The core responsibilities of the Security Operations Engineer are focused on detection, response automation, operational excellence, and cross-functional coordination. • SIEM Operations and Detection Engineering: • Log Onboarding: Onboard new security log sources across cloud, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and application systems, including parsing, normalization, and data quality checks. • Log Onboarding: • Detection Development: Build, test, and tune detection rules based on threat intelligence, incident learnings, and emerging attack techniques, mapped to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK. • Detection Development: • Alert Quality: Tune, enrich, and manage the lifecycle of detections so alerts stay actionable. • Alert Quality: • Detection Coverage: Maintain detections for critical systems and priority attack techniques. • Detection Coverage: • Operational Dashboards: Build and maintain dashboards for alert volume, ingest health, and response status. • Operational Dashboards: • Incident Response & Metrics: • Incident Support: Support security incidents with evidence collection, detection queries, and containment actions, working with IT, Engineering, and external partners. • Incident Support: • Runbooks: Develop and improve alert-handling and incident response runbooks and escalation paths. • Runbooks: • Operational Metrics: Track and report security operations metrics, including mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR). • Operational Metrics: • On-Call: Participate in the Security Operations on-call rotation after onboarding and cross-training. • On-Call: • SOAR and Response Automation: • Playbooks: Design, build, and maintain SOAR playbooks that automate repeatable response actions, including enrichment, containment, ticketing, and notification. • Playbooks: • Triage and Investigation: Triage, investigate, and respond to security alerts across endpoints, identity, cloud, network, and application logs. • Triage and Investigation: • Threat Hunting: Run hypothesis-driven hunts based on threat intelligence and incident learnings, and turn findings into new detections. • Threat Hunting: