Senior Security Engineer

About the role

The Senior Security Engineer will monitor, investigate, and respond to security activity across cloud, identity, endpoint, and Linux-based environments. This role involves hands-on technical work, scripting for automation, and collaborating with internal teams to identify risks and support remediation. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining security posture and supporting incident response efforts.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and investigate security alerts across cloud, identity, endpoint, and network environments.
• Review logs and activity from AWS, GCP, Active Directory, Linux systems, Windows systems, and security tools.
• Support incident response by gathering evidence, validating suspicious activity, and documenting findings.
• Write scripts to automate repetitive security tasks, log analysis, reporting, or enrichment.
• Assist with security reviews, including IAM, storage exposure, compute workloads, and network configurations.
• Investigate authentication activity, user behavior, privilege changes, and potential account compromise.
• Work with internal teams to understand systems, identify risks, and support remediation, compliance and audit activities.
• Be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support.

Required skills

• Cloud security
• IAM
• Python
• Bash
• PowerShell
• SIEM
• Linux
• Windows
• Active Directory
• Incident response

Nice to have

• Google Cloud Platform
• Kubernetes
• Containers
• Automation
• Github
• Gitlab

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in security operations, incident response, systems administration, cloud operations, or a similar technical role
• Hands-on experience using scripts to solve operational or security problems
• Comfortable working in both cloud and Linux command-line environments

About the Company

Cision is a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, helping brands and organizations identify, connect and engage with customers. The company operates a premier suite of solutions including PR Newswire, Brandwatch, and Falcon.io, with offices in 24 countries.