Security Operations Engineer

Summary

Join Apollo.io, a leading go-to-market solution trusted by over 500,000 companies globally, as a Security Operations Engineer. You will enhance and monitor Apollo's security systems, investigate and resolve security issues, and manage incident response. This role requires 3+ years of experience in information security, hands-on experience in security operations and incident response, and a comprehensive understanding of enterprise security architecture and tools. The ideal candidate will possess analytical thinking, time management, and coordination skills. Apollo.io offers a remote-first work environment, fostering collaboration and growth opportunities.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in information security with exposure to implementing security controls across all security domains such as access management, encryption methods, vulnerability management, network security, etc
• Hands-on experience in security operations and incident response
• Comprehensive understanding of enterprise security architecture and tools
• Experience with at least one SIEM, and various EDR and security technologies
• Analytical thinking, time management, and coordination skills
• Good written and spoken English proficiency

Responsibilities

• Improve our security monitoring capabilities
• Develop and roll out our Vulnerability Management Plan
• Detect, analyze and follow-up discovered vulnerabilities up to remediation
• Be aware of new threats and drive the implementation of countermeasures
• Set up and configure protective technologies like vulnerability scanners, IDS, SIEM, WAF, cloud security, and antimalware software
• Perform analysis of logs from a variety of sources (e.g., network traffic, hosts, application, databases, proxies) to identify and investigate potential threats
• Optimize our incident response
• Develop and roll out our Incident Response Plan by driving initiatives that improve our capabilities to respond and remediate security events faster
• Support and lead security incident response in a cross-functional collaboration environment driving towards incident resolution
• Build Security Orchestration and Automated Response capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry-related security certification is preferred (CEH, Security+, CISM, CISSP)
• Exposure or being knowledgeable of cloud environments is preferred (AWS, GCP)
• Technical competence with automation Python, JS, Ruby or similar, is preferred

Benefits

• Remote-first company
• Invest deeply in your growth
• Resources, support, and autonomy to own your role and make a real impact