Cyber Operations Cloud Response Engineer

Solomon Page

Wilmington (DE)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Job summary

Solomon Page is seeking a Cyber Operations Cloud Response Engineer to partner across security and engineering to bolster visibility, detection, investigation, and response within AWS environments.

You will operate at the intersection of cloud engineering, incident response, detection engineering, and security tooling to help identify and mitigate cloud threats and improve operational readiness.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in security operations, cloud security, incident response, detection engineering, or a related cybersecurity discipline.
  • Hands-on experience securing, monitoring, investigating, and responding to incidents within AWS environments.
  • Experience leveraging cloud security technologies and applying containment, remediation, and evidence-preservation techniques during security incidents.
  • Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, cloud identity, container security, and infrastructure automation concepts.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements that drive efficiency, scalability, and business impact.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent; cloud security or cybersecurity certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Enhance visibility across AWS environments by partnering with engineering and security teams to strengthen telemetry, logging, alerting, monitoring, and detection capabilities.
  • Partner with cloud and security platform teams to ensure AWS services, workloads, and integrations provide actionable telemetry that supports effective detection, investigation, containment, and response.
  • Investigate complex AWS security events and incidents while guiding containment, remediation, and evidence preservation activities.
  • Collaborate with cloud security and detection engineering teams to develop, integrate, tune, and optimize security capabilities, detections, and operational workflows.
  • Evaluate emerging cloud threats, participate in threat hunting and forensic investigations, and translate findings into enhancements to runbooks, detections, telemetry standards, and response processes.
  • Partners across security, cloud platform, and operations teams to improve response readiness, operational resilience, and cloud security effectiveness.

Skills

Security operations
AWS cloud security
Incident response
Threat detection
Cloud architecture
Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Our client is looking to fill the role of Cyber Operations Cloud Response Engineer. As a Cyber Operations Cloud Response Engineer, you will partner across security and engineering functions to improve visibility, detection, investigation, and response capabilities within Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. You will operate at the intersection of cloud engineering, incident response, detection engineering, and security tooling while helping the organization identify and mitigate cloud threats and improve operational readiness.

Responsibilities:
  • Enhance visibility across AWS environments by partnering with engineering and security teams to strengthen telemetry, logging, alerting, monitoring, and detection capabilities.
  • Partner with cloud and security platform teams to ensure AWS services, workloads, and integrations provide actionable telemetry that supports effective detection, investigation, containment, and response.
  • Investigate complex AWS security events and incidents while guiding containment, remediation, and evidence preservation activities.
  • Collaborate with cloud security and detection engineering teams to develop, integrate, tune, and optimize security capabilities, detections, and operational workflows.
  • Evaluate emerging cloud threats, participate in threat hunting and forensic investigations, and translate findings into enhancements to runbooks, detections, telemetry standards, and response processes.
  • Partners across security, cloud platform, and operations teams to improve response readiness, operational resilience, and cloud security effectiveness.
Required Qualifications:
  • 8+ years of experience in security operations, cloud security, incident response, detection engineering, or a related cybersecurity discipline.
  • Hands-on experience securing, monitoring, investigating, and responding to incidents within AWS environments, including cloud-native logging, monitoring, and forensic capabilities.
  • Experience leveraging cloud security technologies and applying containment, remediation, and evidence-preservation techniques during security incidents.
  • Strong understanding of cloud architecture, networking, cloud identity, container security, and infrastructure automation concepts.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements that drive efficiency, scalability, and business impact.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risk, document findings, and influence stakeholders across multiple functions.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred; cloud security or cybersecurity certifications are a plus.
The Solomon Page Distinction

Solomon Page offers a comprehensive benefit program for hourly employees. We pride ourselves on offering benefits to our employees, including freelancers, which sets us apart in the industries we serve.

  • medical
  • dental
  • 401(k)
  • direct deposit
  • commuter benefits
About Solomon Page

Founded in 1990, Solomon Page is a specialty niche provider of staffing and executive search solutions across a wide array of functions and industries. The success of Solomon Page reflects an organic growth strategy supported by a highly entrepreneurial culture. Acting as a strategic partner to our clients and candidates, we focus on providing customized solutions and building long-term relationships based on trust, respect, and the consistent delivery of excellent results. For more information and additional opportunities, visit: solomonpage.com and connect with us on Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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