Security Operations Engineer – Purple Team & Automation

Aker BP; Stavanger; Hybrid; NOK 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Aker BP in Stavanger (Norway) invites a hands-on Cyber Security Engineer to join the Security Operations and Purple Teaming team. You will investigate alerts, test security controls, and develop detections and automations to protect IT and OT environments in an AI-first organization.

The role blends incident response, threat hunting, and security engineering with collaboration across stakeholders. You will help design agentic workflows, policy as code, and scalable security services while

Qualifications

• Experience across incident response, threat hunting or security monitoring.
• Hands-on with technical certifications or practical security work accepted.
• Degree or equivalent in cybersecurity/IT/CS preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead or contribute to investigation and response of complex cybersecurity alerts and incidents across IT/OT.
• Develop and improve security monitoring, detection rules, response playbooks, threat hunting, and workflows.
• Perform security assessments through security reviews, pentesting, purple teaming, and attack-path analysis.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design, improve and assure security services.

Skills

Log analysis

Security automation

Scripting

Security tooling

DevSecOps

Education

Degree in Cybersecurity/IT/CS

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Aker BP in Stavanger (Norway) invites a hands-on Cyber Security Engineer to join the Security Operations and Purple Teaming team. You will investigate alerts, test security controls, and develop detections and automations to protect IT and OT environments in an AI-first organization.

The role blends incident response, threat hunting, and security engineering with collaboration across stakeholders. You will help design agentic workflows, policy as code, and scalable security services while