Senior Detection & Security Automation Engineer

The role

This person will drive the evolution of security monitoring, detection, and automation capabilities. They will expand SIEM and SOAR capabilities, optimize security telemetry, and conduct threat hunting activities.

What you will do

• Lead administration, expansion, and optimization of the enterprise SIEM platform.
• Develop and maintain SOAR workflows and security automation capabilities.
• Design, onboard, and maintain log sources across cloud, infrastructure, identity, endpoint, and application environments.
• Create, tune, and maintain detection content.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities and serve as an escalation point for complex investigations.
• Implement telemetry management, cost optimization, data fabric, and data lifecycle management capabilities.
• Collaborate with IT, Networking, and Cloud Operations to improve security telemetry coverage, detection effectiveness, and incident response readiness.
• Mentor team members and establish operational standards.
• Support FedRAMP-related security operations activities.
• Participate in the incident response on-call rotation.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience
• 5+ years SIEM/SOAR engineering experience
• Strong familiarity with Windows AD and Office 365 environments
• Cloud security monitoring and data fabric layer tooling
• Strong communication skills
• Working knowledge of software pipelines
• Experience assessing AI tools for security risk (data leakage, shadow AI, prompt injection)
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks and enterprise AI policies
• Uses AI for threat detection, log analysis, or security documentation
• Contributes to AI tool vetting processes

Nice to have

• Experience supporting incident response investigations at enterprise scale
• Familiarity with Google SecOps, Microsoft Sentinel, the Microsoft Defender suite
• Familiar with the major cloud providers and their services

About the company

Precisely is a global leader in data quality, data enrichment, and location intelligence. It is an AI-first organization.