Senior Security Operations Engineer — Automation & Defense

Jobgether; Österreich; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Performance bonus

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Remote-first environment

Travel opportunities

Open source contributions

Zusammenfassung

Jobgether, on behalf of our partner company, seeks a Senior Security Operations Engineer based in Austria to join a high-impact security engineering environment focused on building and operating a world-class SOC. You’ll combine security operations, software engineering, and site reliability practices to protect complex digital infrastructure.

You’ll own threat detection, incident response, and automation platforms, mentor engineers, and contribute to open source security initiatives within a

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in cybersecurity or software engineering.
• Experience in security operations, ideally including experience leading a Security Operations Center.
• Strong software engineering background to design and develop reliable security tools and platforms.
• Hands-on proficiency with Python and Bash scripting.
• Knowledge of Git, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of security operations, including monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, remediation, and defensive practices.
• Ability to lead and mentor engineers in an agile environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, STEM, or an equivalent professional background.

Aufgaben

• Provide operational leadership across security operations initiatives, helping shape and continuously improve the security operations function.
• Design, build, deploy, and operate security software, platforms, and tooling that strengthen detection, monitoring, response, and remediation capabilities.
• Monitor security environments, identify threats, investigate incidents, coordinate responses, and drive remediation.
• Assess existing controls and implement improvements to strengthen the organisation’s security posture.
• Apply software engineering and SRE principles to automate security processes and improve tooling scalability.
• Mentor and support early-career Security Operations engineers, sharing expertise.
• Plan and deliver security initiatives within an agile engineering framework.
• Collaborate across teams to address technical challenges and resilience.
• Contribute to open source security projects and community knowledge sharing.

Kenntnisse

Security Operations

SOC Leadership

Python

Bash

Go

Kubernetes

GitOps

IaC

Threat Hunting

Incident Response

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, STEM, or related field

Tools

Git

Kubernetes

Go

IaC

GitOps

Jobbeschreibung

Jobgether, on behalf of our partner company, seeks a Senior Security Operations Engineer based in Austria to join a high-impact security engineering environment focused on building and operating a world-class SOC. You’ll combine security operations, software engineering, and site reliability practices to protect complex digital infrastructure.

You’ll own threat detection, incident response, and automation platforms, mentor engineers, and contribute to open source security initiatives within a