Founding Security Operations Engineer — Equity & Growth

Edison Scientific; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Full healthcare coverage

Parental leave & fertility support

Mental health support

401(k) matching

Health and wellness stipend

Commuter benefits

Office meals

Job summary

Edison Scientific is hiring its founding Security Operations Engineer to build and scale a security program from the ground up in Boston. You will own security operations, incident response, cloud/posture, identity security, and application security, guiding architectural decisions and practical implementation.

You’ll lead threat detection, incident investigations, and security tooling while shaping the long-term security roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Security Engineering, Security Operations, Incident Response, or related cybersecurity roles.
• Hands-on AWS and GCP security experience.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR, detection engineering, and threat hunting.
• Strong knowledge of identity security, cloud IAM, and Zero Trust.
• Experience securing Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Knowledge of API Security and OWASP Top 10.
• Experience developing security metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and executive-level reporting.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 or similar frameworks.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the IT & Security Leader to build and mature the company's security operations program.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve SIEM, EDR, and endpoint security capabilities.
• Develop, tune, and maintain detections across cloud, endpoint, identity, and SaaS platforms.
• Lead technical incident investigations while collaborating on incident response planning and post-incident reviews.
• Partner on designing and continuously improving AWS and GCP security posture.
• Lead implementation of identity security across Okta, Google Workspace, cloud IAM, privileged access, MFA, and SSO.
• Secure Kubernetes, Docker, and Infrastructure-as-Code environments.
• Design and maintain centralized security logging and telemetry.
• Lead the vulnerability management program in partnership with Engineering and IT.
• Partner with Engineering to improve secure software development, API security, and application security.
• Lead security awareness initiatives, phishing simulations, and tabletop exercises.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies that improve security operations while supporting secure AI adoption.

Job description

Edison Scientific is hiring its founding Security Operations Engineer to build and scale a security program from the ground up in Boston. You will own security operations, incident response, cloud/posture, identity security, and application security, guiding architectural decisions and practical implementation.

You’ll lead threat detection, incident investigations, and security tooling while shaping the long-term security roadmap.