Hybrid Security Engineer II: Data Protection & DLP

SECU; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SECU in North Carolina seeks a Data Protection Analyst to help guard member and organizational data. You will triage alerts, tune policies, and create metrics and reporting for leadership to act on, working with the VP of Data Protection and cross-functional Security teams to keep the program sharp.

The role involves leading incident responses for data loss events, monitoring tools like Proofpoint, Zscaler, and Splunk, and maintaining BAU activities.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in security operations, data protection, or DLP-focused role.
• Hands-on experience with DLP, DSPM, data classification or endpoint detection tools.
• Strong incident response fundamentals: triage, investigation, containment, documentation.
• Ability to translate technical findings into clear reporting for non-technical stakeholders.

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 BAU activities.
• Tune and maintain DLP policies to reduce false positives and catch real risk.
• Analyze alert trends and incident data to recommend policy improvements.
• Develop metrics and reporting for leadership visibility on program health.
• Document investigation findings, policy changes, and SOPs.
• Partner with Security, IT, HR, Privacy and business units to close protection gaps.
• Support audits and regulatory requests with organized data protection records.

Skills

DLP tools

DSPM

Data classification

Incident response

Log analysis

Clear communication

Education

IT Security degree

Tools

Proofpoint

Zscaler

Splunk

Job description

SECU in North Carolina seeks a Data Protection Analyst to help guard member and organizational data. You will triage alerts, tune policies, and create metrics and reporting for leadership to act on, working with the VP of Data Protection and cross-functional Security teams to keep the program sharp.

The role involves leading incident responses for data loss events, monitoring tools like Proofpoint, Zscaler, and Splunk, and maintaining BAU activities.