Founding Security Operations Engineer — Equity & Impact

Edison Scientific; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Full healthcare coverage

Parental leave

Mental health support

Commuter benefits

401(k) matching

Wellness stipend

Job summary

Edison Scientific is seeking a founding Security Operations Engineer to build security from the ground up, partnering with the IT & Security Leader to design and scale security across cloud, identity, applications, endpoints, and incident response.

You will lead technical execution while collaborating on architecture, priorities, and long-term strategy. This role offers meaningful ownership, active mentorship, and the opportunity to build a practical security program that grows with the company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering or related 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

• Build and mature the company's security operations program.
• Design, implement, and improve SIEM, EDR, and endpoint security capabilities.
• Develop detections across cloud, endpoint, identity, and SaaS platforms.
• Lead technical incident investigations while collaborating on incident response planning and post-incident reviews.
• Design and continuously improve 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.

Skills

AWS security

GCP security

SIEM

EDR

Threat hunting

Identity security

Zero Trust

Kubernetes security

Docker security

IaC security

API security

OWASP Top 10

Security metrics

Executive reporting

Tools

Okta

Google Workspace

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

SSO

Job description

Edison Scientific is seeking a founding Security Operations Engineer to build security from the ground up, partnering with the IT & Security Leader to design and scale security across cloud, identity, applications, endpoints, and incident response.

You will lead technical execution while collaborating on architecture, priorities, and long-term strategy. This role offers meaningful ownership, active mentorship, and the opportunity to build a practical security program that grows with the company.