Senior Security Engineer

Golden Technology; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Golden Technology seeks a Senior Security Engineer to support daily Security Operations, focusing on investigating events and responding to complex incidents. You will lead containment, eradication, and recovery across endpoints, cloud, and identity-related issues, serving as an escalation point for the most challenging events.

The role requires senior-level experience in Security Operations, strong critical thinking, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively under pressure

Qualifications

• Experience in security operations, investigations, and incident response.
• Hands-on experience investigating and responding to security events and incidents.
• Experience supporting containment, eradication, and recovery activities.
• Experience with security alerts and detections.
• Experience developing or maintaining security playbooks and/or runbooks.
• Understanding of SOAR/SIEM tooling, EDR, email gateways, and firewalls.
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead containment, eradication, and recovery during incidents.
• Investigate security events and complex incidents across endpoints, cloud, and identity.
• Act as escalation point for high-severity security events.
• Communicate findings and remediation steps to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Security Operations

Incident response

Containment

Eradication

Recovery

Playbooks/Runbooks

Communication

Technical breakdown

Tools

SIEM/SOAR

EDR

Email security gateways

Firewalls

Job description

The Senior Security Engineer will support day-to-day Security Operations, with a focus on investigating security events and responding to complex security incidents. This person will lead containment, eradication, and recovery efforts across endpoint, cloud, and identity-related incidents and serve as an escalation point for more complex security events.

This is a senior-level individual contributor role requiring strong Security Operations experience, critical thinking, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively in high-pressure situations. The ideal candidate will be able to break down complex technical information and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Security Operations, security investigations, and incident response
• Hands-on experience investigating and responding to security events and incidents
• Experience supporting containment, eradication, and recovery activities
• Experience with security alerts and detections
• Experience developing or maintaining security playbooks and/or runbooks
• Understanding of Security Operations tooling such as SIEM/SOAR, EDR, email security gateways, and firewalls
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down complex technical topics and communicate them clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong written and verbal communication skills