IT Security Operations Engineer

Job Description

Overview

Combined with a healthy driver to keep seeking for areas to develop you and your company to reach higher goals we welcome you to set sail with us.

Essential Functions:

• Security Tools Administration: Manage and optimize the security tools, including Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender XDR. Oversee data source integration, analytic rule development, automation, and logs ingestion tuning within the SIEM. Ensure security tools are properly configured, maintained, and aligned with detection and response objectives. Continuously improve tools performance, visibility, and integration across the security stack.
• Infrastructure Security: Strengthen the security posture of cloud, network, managed endpoints, and email infrastructure.
• Threat Intelligence Management: Manage and integrate threat intelligence sources to proactively identify and assess risks. Stay updated on emerging threats, attack techniques, and adversary tactics to support detection, prevention, and incident response strategies.
• Vulnerability Management: Oversee the discovery, analysis, prioritization, and remediation of vulnerabilities across infrastructure, cloud, endpoints, and applications. Collaborate with relevant teams to ensure timely remediation and reporting.
• Penetration Testing and Configuration Assessments: Conduct internal penetration testing and simulate adversary behavior. Perform security configuration checks against industry benchmarks (e.g., CIS), and ensure alignment with compliance and governance requirements.
• DevOps Security: Embed security practices into CI/CD pipelines, manage secret scanning, container hardening, and static/dynamic code analysis. Support secure development life cycles and infrastructure as code (IaC) reviews.
• Security Operations Documentation: Maintain and update technical documentation, architecture diagrams, SOPs, and security playbooks. Ensure reproducibility of engineering processes and provide technical guidelines to support team operations.
• Reporting and Metrics: Produce and maintain dashboards and reports highlighting vulnerabilities, threat trends, infrastructure risks, and mitigation progress. Support management reporting and regulatory audit preparation.
• Cross-team Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders from other teams to enhance threat visibility, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation.

Technical skills:

• Experience in threat intelligence, vulnerability management, SIEM, penetration testing, and infrastructure hardening.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Security Suite including Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Hands-on knowledge of DevOps security, including secure CI/CD, container security, and code scanning tools.
• Strong understanding of hybrid cloud architectures, network security, identity protection, and endpoint management.
• Capability of scripting and automation (e.g., KQL, PowerShell, Python) to streamline operations and data processing.
• Experience with configuration compliance tools and benchmarks (e.g., CIS, Microsoft Security Baselines).

Soft skills:

• Enjoys working in a team and collaborating across functions.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and technical curiosity.
• Communicates effectively and clearly.
• Self-driven and able to manage complex technical tasks independently.
• Ability to explain technical risks in clear business language.
• Organized, with strong documentation and reporting capabilities.

Required / Preferred Education and Experience:

• A Bachelor&aposs degree in computer science, computer engineering or a relevant field.
• 5+ years of experience in a similar role.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities in English.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-level cloud, infrastructure, and security operations.
• Adept at problem-solving, with keen attention to detail
• Ability to suggest competitive and innovative technical plans and ideas.
• Microsoft Azure certifications are an additional advantage.
• Always curius to learn new things and develop own skills, self learner.