Remote Security Operations Engineer

Holistiplan; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work environment

Competitive salary

Unlimited PTO

Health insurance (medical/dental/vison

401k with company match

Annual company onsite

All expenses paid travel

Job summary

Holistiplan is seeking a Security Engineer to own day‑to‑day security operations across cloud, detection, and audit readiness. You’ll work with the CISO to maintain SOC 2 Type II posture while expanding coverage of threat monitoring and incident response.

The role emphasizes hands‑on cloud security, vulnerability management, and AI‑assisted security tooling. Remote US work with cross‑functional collaboration across the security and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years in security operations, cloud security, or related role.
• Hands‑on with securing AWS environments (IAM, VPC, S3, CloudTrail).
• Experience with SIEM platforms; Datadog Security Monitoring is a plus.
• Incident response experience including triage and post‑incident analysis.
• Familiarity with vulnerability management, CVE triage, and remediation tracking.
• Understanding of governance, SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF or similar compliance frameworks.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and secure development practices.

Responsibilities

• Build, tune, and maintain detection rules and dashboards in Datadog Security Monitoring.
• Triage security alerts, investigate incidents, and follow IR playbooks.
• Reduce alert fatigue through tuning and correlation logic.
• Contribute to log source coverage mapping to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Respond to endpoint alerts with EDR/XDR tools and contain incidents as needed.
• Support internal audits and compliance activities with evidence collection.

Skills

Security operations

Cloud security

AWS security

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Auditing/compliance

MITRE ATT&CK

Scripting basics

Tools

Datadog Security Monitoring

CrowdStrike Falcon

SentinelOne

Microsoft Defender XDR

SAST/DAST/Software composition analysis tools

AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager

Job description

Holistiplan is seeking a Security Engineer to own day‑to‑day security operations across cloud, detection, and audit readiness. You’ll work with the CISO to maintain SOC 2 Type II posture while expanding coverage of threat monitoring and incident response.

The role emphasizes hands‑on cloud security, vulnerability management, and AI‑assisted security tooling. Remote US work with cross‑functional collaboration across the security and engineering teams.