6sense
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StaffSecurityEngineer-SecOps&Threat
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“Staff Security Engineer - SecOps & Threat at 6sense. Skills: SecOps, Threat management, Automation. Execute SecOps & Threat initiatives. Identify security incidents”
What You'll Achieve.
Mitigates security exposures; Drives incidents to closure within SLAs
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years Security Operations experience, 3+ years automation development, 2+ years adversary emulation exercises, Experience with security tools, Experience with cloud environments, Experience with industry frameworks, Experience with regulations, Experience with standards
Nice to Have
Bachelor's degree in related field, CISSP certification, CISM certification, GIAC certification
What You'll Do.
Execute SecOps & Threat initiatives
Identify security incidents
Respond to security incidents
Conduct continuous monitoring
Perform vulnerability assessments
Engage Infrastructure teams
Engage Application Security teams
Ensure incident resolution
Perform root cause analysis
Research emerging threats
Research disclosed vulnerabilities
Research attack vectors
Push mitigating controls
Perform security forensics
Build advanced automation
Propose threat exercises
Plan threat exercises
Lead threat exercises
Execute threat exercises
Drive security controls
Drive risk remediation
Communicate mitigations
Execute quarterly Key Results
Maintain product knowledge
Maintain environment knowledge
Maintain systems knowledge
Maintain architecture knowledge
Prepare for skip levels
Take part in on-call rotation
Mitigate security exposures
Drive incidents to closure
Participate in milestone creation
Develop handbook pages
Maintain handbook pages
Provide project status updates
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Information Security; Infrastructure teams; IT teams; GRC teams; Cloud teams; Application Security teams
Communication Scope
Verbal communication; Written communication; Presentation skills
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
Our Mission: 6sense's mission is to multiply what matters: growth, retention, and efficiency. We envision a future where companies, teams and people reach their full potential. Our People: People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team, Stay Curious, Do The Right Thing, Own the Outcome, and Create Belonging. Every 6sensor plays a part in defining the future of our industry-leading technology. 6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves, take risks, act with integrity, and measure success by the value we create for our customers. We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career. As a member of 6sense’s Security department, the Security Operations and Threat Management team protects 6sense through prevention, detection, investigation, and response to business-impacting security events, incidents, and threats. Responsibilities & Accountabilities Execute on milestones for end-to-end SecOps & Threat initiatives in accordance with the Security roadmap Identify and respond to complex security incidents, including system compromise, intrusion attempts, and/or denial of service attacks by conducting continuous monitoring, vulnerability assessments, and log analysis Engage vendors, Infrastructure, IT, GRC, Cloud, and Application Security teams as required to validate alerts, ensure incident resolution, and perform root cause analysis Research emerging threats, publicly disclosed vulnerabilities or attack vectors, and proactively push mitigating controls to products and services Perform security forensics Build security tools and advanced automation that enable the 6sense Security Team to operate at speed and scale Propose, plan, lead, and execute threat exercises based on current security trends, advisories, publications, and academic research Mentor engineers across Information Security to drive security controls and risk remediation Communicate risks and mitigations acr
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