Remote SecOps Engineer — SIEM & Detection Specialist

GuidePoint Security; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Corporate holidays

FTO program

Phone allowance

Retirement plan

Pet benefit

Job summary

GuidePoint Security is seeking a SecOps Engineer to implement, optimize, and support security operations technologies with a focus on SIEM, detection engineering, and telemetry. You will work within a consulting delivery model across client environments, contributing to data onboarding, detection development, and platform optimization initiatives.

Under senior guidance, you will perform hands-on activities, drive day-to-day operational tasks, and help deliver clientable outcomes, with

Qualifications

• High school diploma + 5 years of experience or BS/BA + 2 years of experience.
• 2–5 years of experience in security operations, SIEM engineering, or related fields.
• Hands‑on experience with at least one SIEM platform.
• Exposure to detection engineering or SOC workflows.
• Experience working with log data and security telemetry.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues across multiple systems.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a client-facing consulting environment. Strong documentation and organizational skills.
• Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes.
• SIEM vendor certifications (Splunk, Google SecOps, Elastic, etc.), SOAR vendor certifications (Splunk SOAR, XSOAR, Fusion, SentinelOne HyperAutomation, Torq, Tines), Observability vendor certifications (Cribl, Onum, Databahn, Dynatrace, Datadog).

Responsibilities

• Execute day-to-day implementation, monitoring and optimization of cybersecurity systems and data pipelines under guidance of senior engineering leadership.
• Log Onboarding & Validation, Normalization & Tagging, and Integration Management.
• Detection Support and Data Quality Assurance.
• SOAR & Automation Support and Automation of enrichment and response workflows.
• Security Architecture Review (SAR) Support and client interviews.

Skills

SIEM engineering

Security operations

Detection engineering

Log data

Problem solving

Client-facing

AI tools

Education

BS/BA in CS/IS

High school diploma + 5 years

Tools

Splunk

Elastic

Google SecOps

Job description

GuidePoint Security is seeking a SecOps Engineer to implement, optimize, and support security operations technologies with a focus on SIEM, detection engineering, and telemetry. You will work within a consulting delivery model across client environments, contributing to data onboarding, detection development, and platform optimization initiatives.

Under senior guidance, you will perform hands-on activities, drive day-to-day operational tasks, and help deliver clientable outcomes, with