About the Role:
JumpCloud is looking for Security Engineers to drive direction for our security organization as we engineer, triage, respond, and mitigate attacks across JumpCloud products and services. In this position, you will be a part of a flexible team responsible for handling security operations. As such, youll need to have years of practical security experience in DFIR, and knowledge of best practices for incident handling, security operations, detecting, and responding to attacks. Maybe you have spent time in blue team CTFs or other cyber defense competitions, but you love to be in the fight. Youll be someone JumpCloudians across the company depend on and trust to respond quickly and effectively in a crunch. Your outstanding communication and collaboration skills are essential to collaborating with diverse stakeholders. Most importantly, you will become a critical member of the team responsible for ensuring visibility across JumpCloud products and services and keeping our customers and service partners safe.
The Security Engineer, SecOps r ole is responsible for Incident Response, Incident Management Lifecycle, creation and management of alerts/detections, forensics, and daily operational needs for the security of the company.
Primary Responsibilities/Duties:
- Triage, investigate, and respond to security alerts and incidents from our SIEM and other monitoring tools, leading investigations and performing forensics on IT systems as necessary to rapidly identify and mitigate potential threats.
- Execute, develop, and document incident management runbooks and processes
- Prepare incident reports of analysis methodology and results.
- Prioritizes events using existing tools to correlate data for the purpose of reducing false positives and detecting threats.
- Analyze and tune security alerts and interpret events, as well as create new signals based on signatures and behavioral activities.
- Assist with implementation of counter-measures or mitigating controls
- Recognize potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and potential compromises through thorough reviews and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information.
- Partner with key stakeholders and communicate effectively to continuously improve the feedback loop of preparation, identification, analysis, containment, and post mortem activities.
- Prepare executive summaries and conduct briefings on significant investigations.
- Ability to prioritize competing tasks and responsibilities.
Additional Responsibilities/Opportunities for growth:
- Depending on your skillset and interest level, the following responsibilities are available to all members of the security team:
- Contribute to our Threat Modeling, Threat Hunting, and Threat Assessment efforts.
- Partner with engineering teams to promote secure coding practices.
- Pentesting and Red Team Operations.
You have:
- Expertise in building and operating security information/event management systems (SIEM), centralized logging, and enrichment solutions (Endpoint protection/detection, Network telemetry data, ELK, DataDog, SumoLogic, Snowflake, AWS and GCP services, HR systems, codebase infrastructure, build infrastructure).
- Expertise with Linux, Windows, and MacOS security and best practices.
- Practical experience working with and knowledge of AWS & GCP security best practices.
- Ability to automate workflows via scripting languages: Python, Go, & Shell.
- Superb communication skills and capacity; ability to partner effectively with diverse company stakeholders.
- Active and current knowledge of campaign behavior, trending threats, IoCs, TTPs, and mitigation techniques as blue team operations.
- Competency in integrating Threat data, enrichments, for higher-value outcomes and behavioral situational awareness.
- Industry certifications such as GCIH, GCIA, CFCE, GCFA and/or GCFE are a plus.
Personal Characteristics you have:
- Views security as an enabler , not an inhibitor to innovation
- Results oriented
- High level of integrity
- Ownership and accountability
- High level of autonomy, but still a team player
- Clear communication skills
- Creative problem solver
- Passionate about Security