Senior Security Engineer – Detection and Response
Location
United States
Posted
23 days ago
Salary
$235K - $255K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Security Engineer – Detection and Response
WeightWatchers
• Build and mature a detection and response program • Detect and respond to security incidents and participate in an incident on-call rotation • Develop innovative ways to detect security incidents. • Design and build the security for the future of our infrastructure. • Partner with the infrastructure team, engineering team, compliance team and within security teams to maintain and further improve our cloud security posture. • Create solutions and processes to identify, resolve and mitigate security vulnerabilities and risks. • Research threats and attack vectors that impact WW applications and infrastructure. • Devise and bolster defense-in-depth through secure-by-default frameworks, architectures and processes. • Mentor and share security standards and processes with all parts of the organization.
Job Requirements
- Expertise responding to complex incidents across endpoint, network, and cloud.
- Capable of understanding an unfamiliar system enough to successfully respond to an incident involving the system.
- Expertise in detection engineering.
- Experience with SIEM, EDR, and CSPM tools.
- Deep understanding of the threat landscape.
- Experience with assessing risks.
- Experience in cloud security, especially for AWS, anything to do with IAM, secure configuration of services, AWS native security services like AWS Cloudtrail, SCP’s, AWS Org, Config etc.
- Ability to understand the whole solution, not just the technology.
- Focus on the end to end lifecycle of solving a problem and solutioning for it and not just implementing a security technology. Have a well-rounded view for problem solving.
- Deep care for the patient and your fellow employees experience as you surpass security challenges.
- Hunger to drive decision making, collaboration and to have deeper opinions on security design.
- You can review different design choices and can understand/discuss pros and cons for each.
- Ability to code to automate tedious tasks.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code. We use terraform!
- Strong collaboration skills with the wider security team and engineering at WW
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Annual bonus program
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