Hands-On SecOps Engineer – Automate and Secure HIPAA

K Health; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Paid parental leave

Hybrid work schedule

Health, dental, vision insurance

18 vacation days

Job summary

K Health in New York City seeks a Security Engineer to strengthen our healthcare tech ecosystem through hands-on SecOps and IT security initiatives. You will lead incident response, automate repeatable tasks, and collaborate with IT and engineering to safeguard patient data.

Reporting to the Director of Security, you will optimize endpoint security, manage tools like Sumo Logic and CrowdStrike, and support SOC2/HIPAA compliance in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years hands-on in Security Operations, IT Security, or System Administration with a security focus.
• Experience actively detecting, investigating, and remediating security incidents in cloud/hybrid environments.
• Deep IT background spanning endpoint administration (macOS/Windows), identity management, and network security.
• Demonstrated experience maintaining controls for SOC2 and/or HIPAA in an operational setting.
• Hands-on automation of security operations or IT tasks using SOAR, scripting or APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain hands-on SecOps workflows, threat detection, and incident response across corporate and cloud infrastructure.
• Build low-code and custom automations (Torq) to streamline security alerts, IT tasks, and triage.
• Administer and manage security tools (Sumo Logic, Jamf, Intune, Slack Enterprise, CrowdStrike).
• Maintain and support SOC2 and HIPAA security controls, participate in audits and evidence gathering.
• Partner with IT and engineering to harden systems, enforce zero-trust endpoint policies, secure employee workflows.
• Conduct root-cause analysis on incidents and implement preventative security measures.

Skills

Security Operations

Incident Response

Endpoint Management

SOC2/HIPAA Compliance

Automation Mindset

Tools

Sumo Logic

Jamf

Intune

Slack Enterprise

CrowdStrike

Torq

Job description

K Health in New York City seeks a Security Engineer to strengthen our healthcare tech ecosystem through hands-on SecOps and IT security initiatives. You will lead incident response, automate repeatable tasks, and collaborate with IT and engineering to safeguard patient data.

Reporting to the Director of Security, you will optimize endpoint security, manage tools like Sumo Logic and CrowdStrike, and support SOC2/HIPAA compliance in a fast-paced, hybrid environment.