Security Operations Engineer II

Love's Travel Stops; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition assistance

Paid Time Off

401(k) – 100% Match up to 5%

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance after

Competitive Pay

Career Development

Job summary

Love's Travel Stops in Oklahoma City is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer II to perform hands-on security engineering and operations across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will design, implement, and maintain enterprise security solutions, develop detections, and contribute to automation and incident response within our security program.

The role collaborates with internal teams and service providers, participates in threat hunting, and supports after-hours escalation on a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Information Security, Computer Science, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant education and experience may be considered.
• CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, CySA+, CCSP, a cloud security certification, or another relevant security certification strongly preferred.
• Minimum of two years of related Information Security experience required; three years strongly preferred.
• Hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, and/or detection engineering required.
• Experience investigating and responding to security incidents required.
• Experience developing detections, queries, or hunts in a SIEM or similar analytics platform required.
• Experience administering and maintaining security tools and platforms required.
• Experience with scripting, security automation, or API-based integrations required.
• General IT experience in systems administration, network administration, cloud engineering, or a related discipline required.
• Experience with cloud and hybrid environment security preferred.
• Experience applying artificial intelligence or large language model tools to investigation, analysis, or automation workflows preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise security solutions that detect, prevent, and respond to threats across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, following established security standards and architectural guidance.
• Develop, test, and tune threat detections aligned to MITRE ATT&CK using established detection-engineering standards and guidance from senior team members to improve alert quality and response effectiveness.
• Investigate, triage, document, and respond to security events and incidents in partnership with internal teams and managed service providers; escalates complex or high-impact matters in accordance with incident-response procedures.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and complete assigned remediation, documentation, and process-improvement activities.
• Develop and maintain security automation, orchestration, and API-based integrations using established patterns, with guidance on complex implementations.
• Use artificial intelligence and large language model tools to support investigations, threat hunting, detection engineering, and automation; validate outputs for accuracy, security, and appropriate use.
• Administer, monitor, maintain, and optimize security tools and platforms, including configuration, upgrades, integrations, health monitoring, runbooks, playbooks, and technical documentation.
• Participate in structured threat-hunting activities and apply relevant threat intelligence to identify suspicious activity and strengthen detections.
• Identify potential security gaps in cloud and hybrid environments and contribute to recommendations and implementation activities that reduce risk.
• Participate in the weekly rotating on-call schedule and provide after-hours and weekend escalation support as assigned.
• Share knowledge with less-experienced team members, contribute to peer learning, represent Information Security on assigned projects, and collaborate with third-party vendors and service providers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Threat hunting

Threat detection

SIEM

API automation

Python

PowerShell

Cloud security

On-prem & cloud

MITRE ATT&CK

NIST framework

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security/Info Security/CS

CISSP

GCIH

GCFA

GCIA

CySA+

CCSP

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Email security

Vulnerability management

Automation tools

Job description

Love's Travel Stops in Oklahoma City is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer II to perform hands-on security engineering and operations across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will design, implement, and maintain enterprise security solutions, develop detections, and contribute to automation and incident response within our security program.

The role collaborates with internal teams and service providers, participates in threat hunting, and supports after-hours escalation on a