SecOps Specialist

Fireblocks; United States; On-site; USD 124,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Fireblocks is seeking a SecOps Specialist to secure our infrastructure and guide security decisions. You’ll manage security tools, analyze threats, and own incident response from detection through containment. This is a fast-paced role with weekend/night shifts as needed.

You’ll collaborate across teams, develop runbooks, and contribute to threat intelligence to protect digital assets and institutional platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Incident Response or Security Operations Center with incident handling and reporting.
• 3+ years using SIEM, analytics, IDS, malware detection, DLP, and IAM tools.
• Understanding of security controls on two or more OSs, plus host-based forensics.
• Strong problem-solving skills and collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Investigate alerts, triage, and provide remediation actions for security incidents.
• Analyze hosts, artifacts, and malware to support investigations and response.
• Coordinate with stakeholders on containment and response activities.
• Produce incident analysis reports with gaps and improvement recommendations.
• Develop or tune detection logic and security controls; work with tool owners.
• Create custom SIEM queries and dashboards for monitoring advanced threats.

Skills

Incident Response

Security Operations Center

SIEM

Analytics

IDS

DLP

IAM

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Cross-OS security

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

SIEM

Analytics

IDS

Malware detection

DLP

IAM

Job description

Fireblocks is the company bringing global finance onchain. Backed by over $1 billion in capital, we are the premier digital asset infrastructure provider trusted by thousands of industry-defining financial institutions, including banks, payment providers, fintechs, and global corporates such as BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas, ANZ Bank, Western Union, Stripe, and Revolut. Built for institutional scale and security, our enterprise-grade platform and network have powered over $14 trillion in digital asset transfers worldwide.

The Security & Information team is looking for someone who is passionate about technology and has a roll-up-their-sleeves mentality to join our global team. You’ll play a crucial role in enhancing our security infrastructure, improving networking, ensuring scalability, and maintaining strong security as we continue to grow. If you want to be an industry leader, on a team experiencing hyper-growth, look no further!

What you’ll do

As a SecOps Specialist, you’ll be responsible for securing and protecting our infrastructure, including managing and administering various security-related technologies, platforms, and tools. You'll also provide security expertise and guidance to the team on various security-related matters. You’ll build and own solutions to quickly identify breach attempts, contain and eradicate threats, streamline our security incident response processes, continuously test our controls, and help the business make informed decisions based on threat intelligence. This is a fast-paced environment, where you’ll have the opportunity to manage multiple projects at once.

This role will have required shifts on some weekends and nights.

Responsibilities

• Investigate alerts, triage, deep dive and come up with proper action items and remediation plans.
• Perform host-based analysis, artifact analysis, and malware analysis in support of security investigations and incident response.
• Coordinate investigation, containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and groups
• Develop incident analysis and findings reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvement.
• Recommend or develop new detection logic and tune existing sensors/security controls.
• Work with security solutions owners to assess existing security solutions ability to detect/mitigate the above mentioned TTPs.
• Creating custom SIEM queries and dashboards to support the monitoring and detection of advanced TTPs against the company network.

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years experience working in an Incident Response/Cyber Security Operations Center (in-house or outsourced) creating, escalating, and managing security incidents and creating incident reports.
  • Managing low to high-risk cybersecurity events, alerts, and incidents, event monitoring, and analysis, and responding to and escalating IT/DevOps security events and threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Collaborating with stakeholders to drive incident response and remediation.
  • Development of common runbooks for most frequent or critical incident types.
• 3+ years of working with security tools such as SIEM, Analytics & Intelligence, Intrusion Detection, Malware detection, Data Loss Protection, and Identity & Access Management
• Solid understanding of system and security controls on at least two OSs (Windows, Linux / Unix, and MacOS (Advantage), including host-based forensics and experience with analyzing OS artifacts.
• Problem solver, an in-depth thinker with a growth mindset.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with other teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
• Familiarity with cloud services, Kubernetes, cloud environment architecture, and the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

For employees hired to work remotely from New York, or from our NYC HQ, Fireblocks is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range is specific to New York City and takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are reviewed when making a hiring decision, such as years of experience, skills, and other business needs.

It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the pay range and each compensation decision is dependent on each individual case. A reasonable base salary range estimate for this position is $124,000 - $163,000. The base salary is one component of the total compensation package, which for some roles may include a target bonus, a very competitive equity grant, and very generous benefits.

While we believe competitive compensation is a critical aspect of your decision to join us, we do hope you also spend time considering why our mission and culture are right for you. We are creating something transformational here, and we hope you are as excited about the future as we are.

Fireblocks' mission is to enable every business to easily and securely access digital assets and cryptocurrencies. In order to do that, we strongly believe our workforce should be as diverse as our clients, and this is why we embrace diversity and inclusion in all its forms.

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