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SecOps Engineer - North Central region (Remote in the U.S.)

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12.7% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. GuidePoint Security postings stay open a median of 16 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.2%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.7%7 days
  4. 20.4%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 58.7%60 days
This job: posted 63 days ago

GuidePoint Security median: 16 days open

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GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

General Description We are looking for a skilled Security Operations Engineer to support the implementation, optimization, and operational support of security operations technologies and workflows. This role will engage in the development of security telemetry pipelines, SIEM detection content, and security automation while providing “Wow Them” service to clients, internal customers, and co-workers.

The Security Operations Engineer must demonstrate strong technical troubleshooting, analytical, and client communication skills. The engineer must lead through influence and apply sound business and financial awareness when making technical decisions involving project scope, level of effort, platform performance, data volume, and client value.

About the North Central region SecOps Practice The Security Operations Practice is responsible for helping clients design, implement, optimize, and operate the technologies and processes used to detect, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity threats. We deliver consulting and engineering services across SIEM, SOAR, security telemetry, detection engineering, observability, and SOC transformation.

Our team of engineers, consultants, architects, and platform specialists focuses on security data onboarding, detection coverage, workflow automation, platform optimization, and operational maturity. We partner with clients, account executives, project managers, technology providers, and internal delivery teams to implement practical and supportable security capabilities.

Key areas of focus include: • Creating repeatable and measurable Security Operations services. • Improving telemetry quality, detection coverage, and investigation efficiency. • Evaluating and adopting emerging security technologies responsibly.

Roles and Responsibilities: • Configure and support the ingestion of security telemetry into SIEM platforms using agents, APIs, syslog, and native integrations. • Implement parsing, field extraction, enrichment, and normalization logic using formats such as regex, JSON, key-value data, CEF, and Windows Event Logs. • Develop, test, map, and tune SIEM detection rules while helping reduce false positives and identify detection coverage gaps. • Support the configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of SIEM and SOAR platforms, integrations, and workflows. • Participate in client discovery sessions and assist with documenting current-state architectures, data flows, SOC processes, and technical findings. • Contribute to reusable implementation patterns, work instructions, detection content, technical documentation, and service-delivery standards. • Maintain awareness of SIEM, SOAR, XDR, observability, and emerging AI-enabled Security Operations technologies. • Execute assigned technical work across multiple client environments while managing priorities, dependencies, and delivery commitments. • Communicate technical issues, risks, progress, and scope considerations to technical leads, project managers, and client stakeholders. • Support regional delivery priorities and collaborate with other engineers when client demand requires cross-platform or cross-practice assistance.

Required Experience and Education: • Two to five years of experience in security operations, SIEM engineering, detection engineering, or a related field. • Hands-on experience implementing or supporting at least one enterprise SIEM platform. • Experience working with log data, security telemetry, parsing, normalization, and data-source onboarding. • Exposure to detection engineering, SOC investigation workflows, APIs, integrations, and security automation. • Basic scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, or a similar language. • Familiarity with SIEM query languages such as SPL, KQL, Lucene, or SQL-like languages. • Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent professional and military experience. • Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes.

Preferred Experience and Education • SIEM vendor certification from Splunk, Google, Microsoft, Elastic, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Rapid7, Sumo Logic, or Datadog. • SOAR or automation certification from Splunk SOAR, XSOAR, Fusion, SentinelOne Hyper Automation, Torq, or Tines. • Experience mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK. • Experience supporting cloud, identity, endpoint, network, or application telemetry. • Experience with observability or security data pipeline platforms. • Client-facing consulting or professional service experience. • Experience producing implementation documentation, runbooks, data dictionaries, or technical assessment deliverables.

Travel Requirements: • Up to 10% travel

Physical Requirements: • Sedentary work • Substantial movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers for a minimum of 8 hours a day • Required to have close visual acuity to view computer terminal and/or extensive reading for a minimum of 8 hours a day

Note: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

We use Greenhouse Software as our applicant tracking system and Zoom Scheduler for HR screen request scheduling. At times, your email may block our communication with you. Please be sure to check your SPAM folder so that you don't miss updates on your application.

Why GuidePoint?

GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1,300 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 6,200 customers.

Firmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company’s success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. At GuidePoint, your colleagues are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced and will seek to collaborate and provide mentorship and guidance at every opportunity.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to grow your career along with one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.

Some added perks….

  • Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
  • Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family). If you choose the High Deductible / HSA plan, GPS will contribute in 4 equal quarterly installments: ($850 per EE annually / $1750 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
  • Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
  • 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
  • Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
  • Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
  • Pet Benefit Option
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