SecOps Engineer

  • Location: kennesaw, Georgia
  • Remote: Hybrid
  • Type: Direct Hire
  • Job #249574

We are looking for a Security Operations Engineer (SecOps) to play a key role in our day?to?day security operations. This position focuses on detection, analysis, and incident response, working closely with internal IT teams and a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC).

This is a hands?on role for a security professional who enjoys investigating alerts, responding to real incidents, and continuously improving detection and response capabilities across cloud, identity, endpoint, and collaboration platforms.


Key Responsibilities

Monitoring & Detection

  • Ensure continuous monitoring of security controls and detection platforms.
  • Detect, analyze, and qualify suspicious or malicious activity across cloud, on?prem, identity, and endpoint environments.
  • Help maintain high?quality detection capabilities with a strong focus on low false?positive rates and actionable alerts.

Alert Analysis & Triage

  • Assess and prioritize security alerts based on risk, scope, and business impact.
  • Qualify incidents and provide clear, concise, and actionable diagnostics.
  • Escalate appropriately to the 24/7 SOC or relevant IT teams with structured context.

Security Incident Response

  • Actively participate in security incident response activities.
  • Support containment, mitigation, and remediation actions in coordination with IT and security partners.
  • Work closely with the 24/7 SOC and internal stakeholders during active incidents.

Security Posture & Continuous Improvement

  • Contribute to security hardening and control configuration improvements.
  • Improve detection rules, alert logic, and operational security workflows.
  • Leverage lessons learned from incidents to strengthen the overall security posture.

Documentation & Reporting

  • Clearly document security incidents, investigations, and response actions.
  • Contribute to concise, risk?oriented security reporting for internal stakeholders.

Microsoft 365 Security

  • Contribute to the secure operation of Microsoft 365 environments.
  • Monitor and analyze alerts related to identity, email, collaboration, and endpoint usage.
  • Participate in Microsoft 365–related incident response activities.
  • Support configuration hardening and continuous improvement of security controls.
  • Contribute to awareness initiatives around identity?based and email?driven threats.

Collaboration & Governance

  • Work closely with Support, Infrastructure, Cloud, and Digital teams.
  • Interface with the 24/7 SOC and external security partners.
  • Participate in incident simulation and tabletop exercises.
  • Contribute to security procedures, runbooks, and operational documentation.
  • Operate within the group security governance framework.

Security Environment

You will work across a modern, mixed environment including:

  • Azure cloud and on?premise infrastructure
  • Endpoint and workload protection (EDR/XDR)
  • SIEM and detection platforms
  • Microsoft 365 security stack
  • ZTNA, Secure Web Gateway, and DLP solutions
  • Integration with a 24/7 SOC and threat intelligence services

What You Bring

Experience & Skills

  • Around 5 years of experience in SecOps, SOC, or security operations roles.
  • Strong understanding of cloud, hybrid, and collaborative environments.
  • Solid security monitoring, detection, and incident response mindset.
  • Experience working with SIEM, EDR/XDR, Microsoft 365 security, or equivalent platforms.
  • Pragmatic, outcome?driven approach to security operations.

Personal Qualities

  • Calm, structured, and reliable under pressure.
  • Strong sense of priorities and risk?based decision making.
  • Team?oriented with clear and effective communication skills.
  • Continuous improvement mindset and curiosity about emerging threats.

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