Security Operations Engineer - Zero Trust & Automation

Pure Storage, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Wellness resources

Company-sponsored team events

Job summary

Pure Storage, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to reduce the global attack surface across cloud, endpoint, and SaaS environments.

You will report to the Senior Security Operations Manager and collaborate with Cloud Platform, Network Engineering, and DevOps to connect Zero Trust and vulnerability management into a scalable program. This role emphasizes automated, risk-based outcomes, building Splunk detections, managing SSL inspection with Zscaler, and automating

Qualifications

• Hands-on enterprise security operations and vulnerability management experience with asset discovery and secrets detection tooling.
• Technical depth in Zero Trust platforms (Zscaler ZIA/ZPA) and cloud security across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficiency in SIEM detection engineering (Splunk) and scripting with automation in CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own the vulnerability and asset lifecycle with risk-based remediation and EPSS-driven prioritization.
• Engineer Zero Trust connectivity and SSL inspection strategies for secure, visible access.
• Architect secrets detection in CI/CD pipelines and automate remediation.
• Build detection queries in Splunk and deploy deception and automation aligned with MITRE ATT&CK.
• Validate defenses with adversary simulations and communicate risk findings to leaders.
• Translate technical risk into business language and produce fix impact reports for executives.

Skills

Security engineering

Zero Trust & Cloud

Automation & DevSecOps

Threat emulation & comms

Tools

runZero

TruffleHog

GitLeaks

Zscaler ZIA/ZPA

Splunk

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

Pure Storage, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to reduce the global attack surface across cloud, endpoint, and SaaS environments.

You will report to the Senior Security Operations Manager and collaborate with Cloud Platform, Network Engineering, and DevOps to connect Zero Trust and vulnerability management into a scalable program. This role emphasizes automated, risk-based outcomes, building Splunk detections, managing SSL inspection with Zscaler, and automating