Security Detection & Response Lead

Visa Hunt; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Home-office equipment stipend

Health and wellness stipend

Intra-office travel budget

Weekly coffee stipend

Job summary

Ramp is seeking a security-focused engineer to join our security team in NYC, focusing on detection and response across federal and public sector environments.

You will review logs, triage incidents, develop runbooks, and work with engineers to improve alerting and automated remediation. This on-site role requires being in NYC at least 2 days/week.

The ideal candidate has 3–4 years in IT security, strong communication skills, and experience with ELK, Datadog, or similar log tools.

Qualifications

• 3–4 years of information technology experience or equivalent in security.
• Experience on a CSIRT/CERT/CSIRC or SOC environment is preferred.
• Experience with log management and security alerting tools.

Responsibilities

• Respond to security requests and incidents submitted by Ramp team members.
• Review logging, alerting, and audit sources to identify potential incidents and triage them.
• Create and tune runbooks and alerts to improve detection and response.
• Collaborate with Security Engineers to enhance alerting and automated remediation.
• Use log ingestion platforms for security analytics and attacker pattern identification.
• Design automation to detect and respond to threats.

Skills

Security incident response

Log analysis

Communication

Deductive reasoning

Tools

ELK

Datadog

Panther

Job description

Ramp is seeking a security-focused engineer to join our security team in NYC, focusing on detection and response across federal and public sector environments.

You will review logs, triage incidents, develop runbooks, and work with engineers to improve alerting and automated remediation. This on-site role requires being in NYC at least 2 days/week.

The ideal candidate has 3–4 years in IT security, strong communication skills, and experience with ELK, Datadog, or similar log tools.