Senior Security Engineer, Security Operations & Threat Management

Summary

Join 6sense's Security Operations and Threat Management team and play a crucial role in protecting the company through prevention, detection, investigation, and response to security threats. Execute on milestones for SecOps & Threat initiatives, identify and respond to complex security incidents, and engage with various teams to ensure incident resolution. Research emerging threats and proactively implement mitigating controls. Perform security forensics, build security tools and automation, and lead threat exercises. Mentor engineers and communicate risks and mitigations effectively. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of 6sense's environment and actively participate in team activities, including on-call rotation and project updates. This role requires 5+ years of experience in Security Operations, 3+ years in developing automation, and 2+ years in adversary emulation exercises. Experience with security tools, cloud environments, and industry frameworks is essential.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience being part of a Security Operations or similar team
• 3+ years of experience developing automation
• 2+ years of experience conducting adversary emulation exercises
• Experience with security tools and cloud environments (e.g., Vulnerability Scanners, SIEM, SOAR, AWS)
• Experience with industry frameworks, regulations, and standards, such as: MITRE ATT&CK, STRIDE, PASTA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI, SOX, NIST, etc

Responsibilities

• 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 across multiple audiences with varying levels of sensitivity
• Execute on quarterly individual Key Results that support team Objectives (OKRs)
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of 6sense’s product, environment, systems, and architecture
• Actively prepares for weekly 1:1s with Manager and monthly skip levels
• Takes part in the Security Operations on-call rotation
• Mitigates security exposures
• Drives incidents to closure within established SLAs
• Participates in creation of milestones associated with major security projects
• Executes on milestones associated with major security projects
• Develops and maintains up-to-date handbook pages, runbooks, workflows, and dashboards
• Provides project status updates on a weekly basis

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Relevant industry certifications, such as CISSP, CISM, or GIAC, are highly desirable
• Works independently to maintain and improve overall company security posture
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams
• Translates technical requirements into actionable and time-bound requests
• Drives projects and tasks to completion by following up on questions, deadlines, and requests for input
• Maintains accuracy of information
• Proactive prioritization and escalation to management
• Strong communication skills, including verbal, written, and presentation skills

Benefits

• Full-time employees can take advantage of health coverage, paid parental leave, generous paid time-off and holidays, quarterly self-care days off, and stock options
• We’ll make sure you have the equipment and support you need to work and connect with your teams, at home or in one of our offices
• We have a growth mindset culture that is represented in all that we do, from onboarding through to numerous learning and development initiatives including access to our LinkedIn Learning platform
• Employee well-being is also top of mind for us
• We host quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self care and personal growth
• From wellness days to ERG-hosted events, we celebrate and energize all 6sense employees and their backgrounds