Remote Senior Security Engineer, Blue Team

Olo; United States; Remote; USD 120,482 - 160,642; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (UK)

Job summary

Olo, a leading restaurant technology provider, seeks a Senior Security Engineer to reduce identified risks, respond to adversarial attacks, and implement strategic risk measures to safeguard client data. You will mentor engineers, lead cross‑functional security projects, and enhance detection and response capabilities with SIEMs and vulnerability scanners.

You will collaborate with IT and development teams to embed security best practices in architecture and operations, while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent security experience).
• 5+ years of security engineering and operations experience including blue team operations, security architecture, DevOps, and general operations.
• Deep knowledge of IT, evolving threats, incident response, and cybersecurity standards.
• Proven ability to lead incident response, remediation, and status updates.
• Strong OS, network, and application hardening knowledge across Windows, macOS, Linux.

Responsibilities

• Lead improvements in detection and response, optimise monitoring and incident response processes.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, setting high security standards.
• Participate in on-call rotation and coordinate effective resolutions.
• Deliver white-glove security service and manage security incidents thoroughly.
• Define and implement leading security practices aligned with company goals and standards.
• Own security project execution and prioritize initiatives.
• Utilise advanced security tools to enhance detection, logging, and analysis.
• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and implement mitigations.
• Support compliance through audits and documentation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security into architecture.
• Lead security awareness and training initiatives.
• Stay informed on emerging threats and technologies and evaluate new tools.
• Develop and document security processes and procedures for routine and high-stress incidents.
• Provide leadership with incident, vulnerability, and project metrics.

Skills

Incident response

Security architecture

Cloud security

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

AWS security

On-call readiness

Vulnerability assessment

SIEM

Automation scripting

Mentoring/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

SIEM

WAF

IDS

DLP

FIM

Web Proxies

MFA

Job description

Olo, a leading restaurant technology provider, seeks a Senior Security Engineer to reduce identified risks, respond to adversarial attacks, and implement strategic risk measures to safeguard client data. You will mentor engineers, lead cross‑functional security projects, and enhance detection and response capabilities with SIEMs and vulnerability scanners.

You will collaborate with IT and development teams to embed security best practices in architecture and operations, while maintaining