Security Operations Engineer: Incident Response & Detection

Vertex Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertex Inc. is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to enhance monitoring, incident response, detection engineering, and SecOps automation.

The role is hands-on, focused on threat investigation, incident handling, and building operational tooling to speed security teamwork. Because this function operates 24/7, you will participate in a rotating shift, including nights, weekends, and holidays, and collaborate across endpoints, cloud services, identities, and networks to improve detection and

Qualifications

• Hands-on security operations experience.
• Experience leading significant investigations across multiple environments.
• Proficiency with SIEM and EDR/XDR platforms; ability to write and tune detections.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, investigate, and respond to security alerts across endpoints, identity, network, cloud services, and applications.
• Lead end-to-end incident response from detection to containment and recovery.
• Develop and maintain SecOps tooling, scripts, and integrations to speed investigation and response.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve detection coverage and telemetry gaps.
• Apply AI thoughtfully in SecOps workflows and explain AI-assisted outputs.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Threat hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

SIEM

EDR/XDR

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Cloud platforms

Identity security

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Sentinel

Splunk

Chronicle

QRadar

Elastic

Defender for Endpoint

CrowdStrike

SentinelOne

Cortex XDR

Carbon Black

Job description

Vertex Inc. is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to enhance monitoring, incident response, detection engineering, and SecOps automation.

The role is hands-on, focused on threat investigation, incident handling, and building operational tooling to speed security teamwork. Because this function operates 24/7, you will participate in a rotating shift, including nights, weekends, and holidays, and collaborate across endpoints, cloud services, identities, and networks to improve detection and