SecOps Engineer I

Socket.dev; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Vacation days (28)

Tuition reimbursement

Food vouchers

Remote-friendly

Job summary

LivePerson is a leading Conversational AI company delivering digital experiences for global brands. This role focuses on IT and security operations, vulnerability testing, and incident investigations to protect data and systems.

You will work with SecOps and IT teams to harden cloud and on‑premise infrastructure, monitor alerts, and document SOPs. Strong English communication and experience in SAAS security are required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in system security engineering or information security engineering.
• Experience building and maintaining both internal and external systems.
• Operating system security for all platforms.
• Cloud security, networking technologies, and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide IT and security operations support to ensure performance, confidentiality, integrity and availability.
• Document, monitor and report on security systems and processes to ensure data integrity and security.
• Evaluate and select tools with teams to fit company needs.
• Test and maintain security solutions to align with best practices.
• Collaborate with IT and System teams on hardening and configuration management for cloud and infrastructure.
• Analyze transactional data and logs to identify malicious or anomalous activity.
• Be available for on-call rotations.

Skills

System security

Internal/external systems

OS security

Cloud security

Tools

GCP

Elastic

OKTA

IDM

AD

JAMF

Windows

Linux

MacOS

Job description

LivePerson (NASDAQ:LPSN) is a Conversational AI company creating digital experiences that are Curiously Human. Every person is unique, and our technology makes it possible for companies, including leading brands like HSBC, Orange, and GM Financial, to treat their audiences that way at scale. Nearly a billion conversational interactions are powered by our Conversational Cloud each month. You’ll be successful at LivePerson if you are excited to build something from the ground up. You excel by finding daily opportunities to grow at the same pace as the technology we're building, and you build partnerships that improve our business. Likewise, you’re someone who sees feedback as a chance to learn and grow and believe decisions powered by data are the norm. You care about the wellbeing of others and yourself.

You Will:

• Provide operational support for SecOps tool alerts, triaging, and maintenance.
• Work with the SecOps team and other stakeholders to test and uncover vulnerabilities.
• Assist with investigating cybersecurity incidents and investigations.
• Monitor email and the ticketing system for security-related issues and follow through until they are resolved.
• Troubleshoot problems with tools and infrastructure owned by the SecOps team (on-premise and cloud based).
• Provide support to the SecOps team with documentation for SOPs, playbooks, and how to walk throughs.
• Stay up to date with adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and general security related events and news.

You Should Be an Expert In:

• System security engineering or information security engineering.
• Building and maintaining both internal and external systems.
• Operating system security for all platforms.
• Cloud security, networking technologies, and monitoring tools.

What You’ll Do:

• Be responsible for all areas involving IT and operations infrastructure to ensure effective performance and data confidentiality, integrity and availability.
• Be responsible for documenting, monitoring and reporting on various security related systems and processes to ensure system and data integrity, security and availability.
• Evaluate and choose the right tools together with the various team(s) to best suit the company’s needs.
• Test, maintain and challenge the chosen solutions to comply with securities best practices.
• Work closely with the IT and System teams on hardening and configuration management on cloud and infrastructure tools to align with security and regulatory best practices.
• Perform analysis of transactional data, log files and/or other system outputs to identify malicious or anomalous activity.
• Be available to work in an on-call rotation.

You Have:

• Hands-on experience with multi-cloud service environments.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, Elastic, OKTA, IDM, AD, JAMF and Windows, Linux, MacOS Operating systems.
• Experience with responding to security incidents and log analysis.
• At least 3 years experience in IT / System teams in a SAAS /Cloud company.
• Experience with establishing procedures, reports, SLA's and escalations.
• Ability to work under pressure in dynamic environments.
• Excellent interpersonal and effective leadership skills.
• Problem-solving skills and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to communicate using English (both speaking and writing)
• Knowledge of Python / Go (big advantage)
• Valid CompTia CySA+ Certificate

Other Requirements:

• Ability to support during US hours
• The job requires on-call duty
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong command of the English language (written and spoken)
• Critical thinking skills
• Problem solving skills
• Attention to detail required
• Communications skills necessary (both listening, and speaking)
• Ability to prioritize tasks.

Benefits:

• Health: medical, dental, and vision
• Time away: 28 vacation days
• Development: Generous tuition reimbursement and access to internal professional development resources.
• Additional: Food Vouchers.
• #LI-Remote

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

Your entrepreneurial spirit will be supported. We love team members who chase down their big ideas, become experts, help colleagues, and own their work. These four company values guide our continued, holistic growth as individuals, as teams, and as a global organization. And to further make our point, let's just say we're very proud to be on Fast Company's list of Most Innovative Companies and Newsweek's list of most-loved workplaces. At LivePerson, the option to work remotely has helped shape who we are today: a collective of innovators and industry leaders working toward the same vision without ego. While we maintain hubs in NY and Seattle as well as WeWork locations across the globe, our employees choose the environments that work best for them from anywhere in North America.

Belonging at LivePerson:

At LivePerson, people from diverse backgrounds come together to make an impact and be their authentic selves. One way we share and connect is through our employee resource groups such as: Live In Color, LP Proud, and Women In Tech. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.