Data Protection Security Engineer II - DLP & Incident Response

ncsecu; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

State Employees' Credit Union in Raleigh, NC seeks a Data Protection / DLP Analyst to triage alerts, tune policies, and generate actionable reports for leadership. You will work with the VP of Data Protection and partner teams to keep the DLP program sharp and compliant.

You will monitor DLP tools (Proofpoint, Zscaler, Splunk), lead incidents, and contribute to policy improvements and BAU activities while ensuring clear communication to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• High School Degree required.
• Associates, Bachelors, or advanced degree in IT Security preferred.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry is a plus.
• Familiarity with dashboards or metrics reporting for security programs is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, and investigate DLP and data protection alerts across security tools.
• Lead incident response for confirmed data loss events from detection to resolution.
• Provide operational support for DLP tools and maintain BAU activities.
• Support, tune, and maintain DLP policies to reduce false positives while catching real risk.
• Analyze alert trends and incident data to spot patterns and suggest policy improvements.
• Develop and maintain metrics and reporting for leadership visibility into program health.
• Document investigation findings, policy changes, and SOPs.
• Partner with Security, IT, HR, Privacy and business units to map data flows and close protection gaps.
• Support audits and regulatory requests with organized data protection records.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

DLP tools

Data classification

Log analysis

Reporting

Collaboration

Education

Associates, Bachelors, or advanced degree in IT Security

Tools

Proofpoint

Zscaler

Splunk

Job description

State Employees' Credit Union in Raleigh, NC seeks a Data Protection / DLP Analyst to triage alerts, tune policies, and generate actionable reports for leadership. You will work with the VP of Data Protection and partner teams to keep the DLP program sharp and compliant.

You will monitor DLP tools (Proofpoint, Zscaler, Splunk), lead incidents, and contribute to policy improvements and BAU activities while ensuring clear communication to stakeholders.