Abacus Insights - Security Operations Engineer
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Requirements
• 3–6 years of experience in security operations, cloud operations, or SRE-adjacent‑ roles. • Strong experience operating security tooling such as cloud security posture management (CSPM), SIEM, endpoint protection, or DLP platforms. • Hands-on familiarity with cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure) and common operational security controls. • Experience managing work through ticketing systems (e.g., Jira) with a focus on clarity, prioritization, and follow-through. • Strong understanding of operational security concepts, including vulnerability management, least privilege, logging, and auditability. • Ability to work calmly across many parallel work items and maintain operational discipline. • Clear written and verbal communication skills, especially when coordinating across teams. • What we would like to see, but not required • Experience supporting regulated environments (e.g., healthcare, HITRUST, SOC 2). • Familiarity with tools such as Wiz, Splunk, Microsoft Defender, or equivalent platforms. • Experience supporting audit cycles or customer security reviews. • Exposure to Infrastructure-As-Code or automation pipelines (ability to identify‑ when automation is needed, not necessarily build it). • AWS Security certification and/or Azure Security equivalent certifications are a plus • Compensation: Compensation for this role is based on experience, skills, and location, and includes base salary plus eligibility for performance bonuses and equity grants.
Responsibilities
• Security Operations & Triage • Own the end-to-end‑ lifecycle of security operational work from intake to closure, including triage, prioritization, routing, and verification. • Serve as the primary owner of the security operations backlog in Jira, ensuring issues are clearly scoped, properly assigned, and progressing. • Triage and manage findings from security tooling (e.g., CSPM, SIEM, DLP, endpoint security), escalating when necessary and closing the loop with evidence. • Act as the first line of operational response for routine security requests such as firewall rules, IP allowlisting, certificate management, logging changes, and access related‑ exceptions. • Vulnerability & Findings Management • Manage cloud and application security findings through remediation, exception, or risk acceptance workflows. • Coordinate directly with engineering teams on remediation efforts, ensuring expectations, deadlines, and verification steps are clear. • Maintain accurate status tracking and supporting evidence for remediation and audit purposes. • Support recurring vulnerability management activities and reporting requirements. • Monitoring, Logging & Detection Hygiene • Execute daily, weekly, and monthly security review tasks, including log reviews, alert reviews, and dashboard verification. • Ensure required logs are present, flowing, and usable; identify and escalate gaps in coverage. • Support continuous improvement by documenting operational pain points and recurring failures for engineering follow-up‑. • Compliance & Audit Operations • Produce and maintain security artifacts required for audits, customer assurance, and regulatory reviews. • Own recurring security operational tasks tied to compliance (e.g., access reviews, log review evidence, vulnerability reports). • Ensure evidence is complete, reproducible, and stored according to defined standards. • Process & Runbook Ownership • Maintain and improve security operations runbooks, checklists, and standard operating procedures. • Help normalize and standardize how security work is requested, tracked, and completed across teams. • Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort through better workflow design or handoff to engineering for automation.
Benefits
• What you’ll get in return: • Unlimited paid time off – recharge when you need it • Work from anywhere – flexibility to fit your life • Comprehensive health coverage – multiple plan options to choose from • Equity for every employee – share in our success • Growth-focused environment – your development matters here • Monthly cell phone allowance – stay connected with ease #LI-SB1 #LI-Remote
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