SecOps Engineer - North Central region (Remote in the U.S.)

The role

The Security Operations Engineer supports the implementation, optimization, and operational support of security operations technologies and workflows. This role involves developing security telemetry pipelines, SIEM detection content, and security automation for clients.

What you will do

• Configure and support security telemetry ingestion into SIEM platforms.
• Implement parsing, field extraction, enrichment, and normalization logic.
• Develop, test, map, and tune SIEM detection rules.
• Support configuration, maintenance, and optimization of SIEM and SOAR platforms.
• Participate in client discovery sessions and document architectures and processes.
• Contribute to implementation patterns, work instructions, and technical documentation.
• Maintain awareness of SIEM, SOAR, XDR, observability, and AI-enabled technologies.
• Execute technical work across multiple client environments.
• Communicate technical issues, risks, and progress to stakeholders.
• Support regional delivery priorities and collaborate with other engineers.

Required qualifications

• Two to five years of experience in security operations, SIEM engineering, detection engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience implementing or supporting at least one enterprise SIEM platform.
• Experience working with log data, security telemetry, parsing, normalization, and data-source onboarding.
• Exposure to detection engineering, SOC investigation workflows, APIs, integrations, and security automation.
• Basic scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, or a similar language.
• Familiarity with SIEM query languages such as SPL, KQL, Lucene, or SQL-like languages.
• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent professional and military experience.
• Sedentary work.
• Substantial movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers for a minimum of 8 hours a day.
• Required to have close visual acuity to view computer terminal and/or extensive reading for a minimum of 8 hours a day.

Nice to have

• SIEM vendor certification from Splunk, Google, Microsoft, Elastic, Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Rapid7, Sumo Logic, or Datadog.
• SOAR or automation certification from Splunk SOAR, XSOAR, Fusion, SentinelOne Hyper Automation, Torq, or Tines.
• Experience mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience supporting cloud, identity, endpoint, network, or application telemetry.
• Experience with observability or security data pipeline platforms.
• Client-facing consulting or professional service experience.
• Experience producing implementation documentation, runbooks, data dictionaries, or technical assessment deliverables.

Benefits

• Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA.
• Group Dental Insurance.
• 12 corporate holidays.
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) program.
• Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance.
• Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment.
• Pet Benefit Option.

Before you apply

• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
• Unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

About the company

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. It is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security.