Senior Solutions Engineer

Summary

Join GuidePoint Security as a Senior Solutions Engineer in Security Operations Engineering Services. You will leverage your deep expertise in Security Operations to support solution design, scoping, and technical engagement efforts. Partner with sales, engineering, and delivery teams to craft solutions enhancing customer security detection, monitoring, and response. Key responsibilities include engaging with clients to understand their needs, developing customized security solutions, creating technical proposals, leading technical workshops, and collaborating with delivery and engineering teams. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of SOC experience, 3+ years in a client-facing role, and strong knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and log management technologies. This role offers a remote work environment (primarily U.S. based) and various benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Security Operations Center (SOC) environment, with hands-on work in detection engineering, incident response, or security monitoring
• 3+ years in a client-facing pre-sales, solution architecture, or security consulting role
• Strong knowledge of SIEM (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, Sentinel, Secops), SOAR, EDR, XDR, and log management technologies
• Experience designing or optimizing SOC services such as threat detection engineering, alert tuning, threat hunting, incident triage, and response processes
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical security solutions
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS Controls
• Strong presentation, whiteboarding, and customer engagement skills
• Excellent technical writing skills for documentation, proposals, and SOWs

Responsibilities

• Engage directly with prospects and clients to understand their Security Operations Center (SOC) needs, pain points, and objectives
• Develop and present customized security operations solutions, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, log management, threat detection engineering, and SOC service offerings
• Create technical proposals, solution designs, statements of work (SOWs), and RFP responses aligned to customer requirements
• Lead technical workshops and whiteboarding sessions with prospective customers
• Map customer environments against cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF) and recommend improvements
• Collaborate with delivery and engineering teams to ensure proposed solutions are feasible, scalable, and operationally sound
• Conduct technical assessments of current security operations environments and identify optimization opportunities
• Stay current on security technologies, SOC best practices, and threat detection methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SIEM migrations, SOC assessments, or detection-as-code practices
• Certifications such as CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GMON, GCDA, or equivalent
• Experience with security data pipelines, log normalization, and cloud-native security monitoring (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Knowledge of MDR/MSSP service models and managed security operations

Benefits

• Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
• Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family) and GPS will contribute in one lump sum: ($500 per EE annually / $1000 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
• Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
• 12 corporate holidays and a 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