Senior Security Engineer
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Senior Security Engineer monitoring and responding to threats across Cision’s cloud, identity, endpoint, and Linux environments. Cision provides PR, marketing, and social media management technology.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor and investigate security alerts across cloud, identity, endpoint, and network environments
- Review logs and activity from AWS, GCP, Active Directory, Linux systems, Windows systems, and security tools
- Support incident response by gathering evidence, validating suspicious activity, and documenting findings
- Write scripts to automate repetitive security tasks, log analysis, reporting, or enrichment
- Assist with security reviews covering IAM, storage exposure, compute workloads, and network configurations
- Investigate authentication activity, user behavior, privilege changes, and potential account compromise
- Work with internal teams to understand systems, identify risks, and support remediation, compliance, and audit activities
- Provide after-hours incident response for urgent security events
Requirements:
- 3-5 years of experience in security operations, incident response, systems administration, cloud operations, or a similar technical role
- Experience with cloud security concepts, services, logs, and IAM
- Strong scripting ability, preferably with Python, Bash, or PowerShell
- Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Chronicle, Sentinel, or similar tools
- Working knowledge of Linux and Windows systems, command line usage, permissions, processes, and logs
- Basic to intermediate understanding of Active Directory, including users, groups, authentication, and privilege changes
- Ability to read and interpret logs from cloud platforms, operating systems, and security tools
- Understanding of phishing, credential compromise, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and exposed services
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills
- Hands-on experience using scripts to solve operational or security problems
- Comfortable working in cloud and Linux command-line environments
- Candidates must be available for after-hours incident response
- Hands-on practical exercise required during the interview process
- Google Cloud Platform security experience, Kubernetes/containers, and security monitoring automation are preferred
Benefits:
- Equal opportunity employer
- Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
- Inclusive and diverse work environment














