Hybrid SOC Engineer: Incident Response & Threat Detection

Kelly Services; Addison (TX); Hybrid; USD 57,308,000 - 94,558,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners in Addison, TX is seeking a SOC engineer to join a hybrid security operations team. You will escalate to junior analysts, support major incident response efforts, and tune detection tooling across an enterprise environment.

Ideal candidates have SOC or security engineering experience, strong written communication, and readiness for on-call rotations. The role emphasizes incident response, detection, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 3 to 5 years of combined IT and cybersecurity experience, with time spent in a SOC or security engineering function.
• Experience with Splunk or a comparable SIEM for alert triage, correlation, and root cause analysis.
• Proven experience supporting major incident response activities and EDR detection and response.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical findings into clear language for non-technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, including weekends.

Responsibilities

• 65% Hands On: Investigating and correlating suspicious events, determining root cause, supporting incident response, performing proactive and reactive threat hunting, and recommending changes to security controls and procedures.
• 35% Team Collaboration: Guiding junior analysts on event monitoring, partnering with cross-functional teams, conducting business impact analysis, and participating in IR exercises and drills.

Skills

Incident response

SOC experience

Written communication

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IS or related field

Tools

Splunk

CrowdStrike Falcon / EDR

Scripting: Python / PowerShell / Bash

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners in Addison, TX is seeking a SOC engineer to join a hybrid security operations team. You will escalate to junior analysts, support major incident response efforts, and tune detection tooling across an enterprise environment.

Ideal candidates have SOC or security engineering experience, strong written communication, and readiness for on-call rotations. The role emphasizes incident response, detection, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.