Security Operations Engineer, Associate - Security Operations Engineering

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The Blackstone Security Operations – Engineering team is growing to support new cross‑functional security needs. The Associate Security Engineer is responsible for providing Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), automation, and security platform engineering support to assist both new cross‑team engineering projects and day‑to‑day SIEM operations / engineering support. The Associate Security Operations Engineer will also participate in Tier 3 security investigations and must have strong working knowledge of incident response procedures and technology.

They need to have hands‑on experience with SIEM technology; experience implementing / managing security platforms used in a SOC environment is a plus. In addition, they will also be tasked to ensure that our assets meet baseline security standards and that we have the visibility and observability across all assets in the estate.

• Designing and customizing complex SIEM search queries, dashboards, and promoting advance searching, forensics, and analytics
• Design and develop SOAR automations to support response and investigation workflows
• Developing and documenting configuration standards, policies, and procedures for operating security / SIEM platforms
• Perform as technical lead in the development and delivery of custom content, system integration, and event reporting
• Leverage infrastructure‑as‑code frameworks to provision and maintain cloud resources (Terraform)
• Design, build, and maintain critical security‑related systems for CI/CD, secrets management, and other core services

• 3+ years in a hands‑on technical role in information security or related field
• 3+ years of infrastructure/software engineering experience with a focus on Cloud technologies
• Experience with cloud native architectures such as AWS, Azure, Office 365 etc.
• Hands‑on experience with SIEM (e.g. Splunk) for detection and security orchestration and automated response (SOAR)
• Development/scripting experience (Python and/or Power Shell)
• Proven experience with infrastructure‑as‑code frameworks (e.g. Terraform Cloud)
• Proven experience working with git source control and CI/CD systems (Jenkins, Gitlab CICD/Runners)
• Proven experience with multiple security event detection platforms (and orchestrating those to a centralized detection platform).
• Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, AWS ECS)
• Experience with asset hardening (CIS/STIG)
• Experience with Endpoint Detection and Response systems
• Strong written and oral communication skills; effectively explains technical ideas to non‑technical individuals at any level
• Strong documentation skills and attention to detail
• B.S. in Computer Science or…