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Security Operations Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
123 days ago
Salary
$140K - $200K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Security Operations Engineer
Apollo GraphQL
• Advance Apollo’s detection and response strategy in partnership with engineering and IT leadership • Implement and maintain adherence to SOC 2 and other cloud security frameworks • Handle escalations from Sales and Customer Success, including security questionnaires and customer audits • Build and tune monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to improve visibility while reducing noise • Drive automation of SecOps workflows to speed up investigation and response • Guide secure adoption of AI across Apollo - from internal use by engineers to AI-powered product features • Participate in our on-call rotation (we keep this lightweight and reasonable)
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or related fields, including at least 2 years in a staff or senior-level role
- Deep expertise with detection and response in cloud-native environments
- Strong knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar security frameworks
- Experience building and automating security tooling (SIEM, SOAR, custom scripts)
- Proven ability to lead or coordinate incident response across multiple teams
- Track record of influencing operational security culture and practices without direct authority
- Nice to have: Experience working with AI security - either in detection, incident response, or product security contexts
- Prior experience supporting enterprise customer audits or due diligence processes
- Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, or other modern infrastructure stacks
- Hands-on experience with threat hunting and detection engineering
Benefits
- Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans
- California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans
- Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial.
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