Senior Security Engineer

Panera; Georgia; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Panera is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design, implement, and support enterprise security across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, and secure-access environments. You’ll work with Infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, and App teams to strengthen the security posture and drive Zero Trust adoption.

The role requires hands-on expertise in endpoint protection, identity security, cloud security, and proactive security monitoring, with a focus on secure authentication and rapid incident

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or associate degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Five or more years of combined IT infrastructure, endpoint engineering, identity administration, network support, or cybersecurity experience.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in at least two areas: Endpoint security, Identity and access management, Security monitoring/incident response, Cloud security, Network security and secure access.

Responsibilities

• Design and support security solutions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Develop security standards, architectures, configurations, and controls aligned with organizational requirements and industry practices.
• Engineer solutions supporting Zero Trust, endpoint protection, identity security, secure access, cloud security, threat detection, and network segmentation.
• Evaluate security technologies and document technical requirements, risks, and implementation recommendations.
• Engineer and maintain enterprise endpoint-protection and device-security solutions.
• Implement endpoint configuration, hardening, monitoring, and compliance controls across Windows and macOS environments.
• Design and support identity-security controls, including phishing-resistant MFA, conditional access, privileged access, and secure authentication.
• Investigate endpoint and identity events using enterprise detection and response platforms.
• Develop scripts and automation that improve configuration consistency, operational efficiency, and security visibility.
• Implement IAM, network-security, logging, and workload-protection controls in cloud environments.
• Support secure cloud connectivity and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Assist with protecting web applications, APIs, and internet-facing services.
• Use infrastructure-as-code and automation where appropriate to deploy repeatable security controls.
• Partner with cloud and application teams to identify and remediate security risks.
• Monitor and investigate security events across endpoint, identity, network, and cloud platforms.
• Support containment, evidence collection, root-cause analysis, remediation, and incident reporting.
• Create and maintain security documentation, dashboards, metrics, procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with internal teams and security-service providers during investigations.
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring security operations.

Skills

Endpoint security

Identity security

Zero Trust

Security monitoring

Incident response

Cloud security

Network security

Automation/scripting

Education

Bachelor's or associate degree in cybersecurity/related field

Equivalent relevant experience

Tools

Microsoft Defender XDR

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Intune

Entra ID

GCP/AWS/Azure

Fortinet

Zscaler

Akamai

Cisco Meraki

Job description

Senior Security Engineer

Position Summary

The Senior Security Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, protecting, and supporting enterprise security solutions across endpoint, identity, cloud, network, and secure-access environments. This hands-on role works closely with Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Networking, Application Development, Service Desk, and Security Operations to strengthen the organization's security posture. The role requires demonstrated expertise in endpoint protection, identity security, Zero Trust, security monitoring, incident response, and cloud security. The successful candidate will also be expected to develop broader proficiency across enterprise network-security and secure-access platforms.

Location: Boston, MA

Core Responsibilities

Security Architecture and Engineering

• Design and support security solutions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Develop security standards, architectures, configurations, and controls aligned with organizational requirements and industry practices.
• Engineer solutions supporting Zero Trust, endpoint protection, identity security, secure access, cloud security, threat detection, and network segmentation.
• Evaluate security technologies and document technical requirements, risks, and implementation recommendations.

Endpoint and Identity Security

• Engineer and maintain enterprise endpoint-protection and device-security solutions.
• Implement endpoint configuration, hardening, monitoring, and compliance controls across Windows and macOS environments.
• Design and support identity-security controls, including phishing-resistant MFA, conditional access, privileged access, and secure authentication.
• Investigate endpoint and identity events using enterprise detection and response platforms.
• Develop scripts and automation that improve configuration consistency, operational efficiency, and security visibility.

Cloud and Application Security

• Implement IAM, network-security, logging, and workload-protection controls in cloud environments.
• Support secure cloud connectivity and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Assist with protecting web applications, APIs, and internet-facing services.
• Use infrastructure-as-code and automation where appropriate to deploy repeatable security controls.
• Partner with cloud and application teams to identify and remediate security risks.

Network Security and Secure Access

• Support enterprise firewalls, VPNs, SD-WAN, secure web gateways, remote-access solutions, and network-security monitoring.
• Assist with the administration and ongoing improvement of Fortinet, Zscaler, Akamai, Cisco Meraki, or comparable enterprise platforms.
• Review security policies, connectivity rules, logs, and alerts.
• Support network segmentation and secure connectivity across corporate, cloud, remote, and distributed locations.
• Build increasing platform ownership through formal training and hands-on operational experience.

Security Operations and Incident Response

• Monitor and investigate security events across endpoint, identity, network, and cloud platforms.
• Support containment, evidence collection, root-cause analysis, remediation, and incident reporting.
• Create and maintain security documentation, dashboards, metrics, procedures, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with internal teams and security-service providers during investigations.
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring security operations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or associate degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Five or more years of combined IT infrastructure, endpoint engineering, identity administration, network support, or cybersecurity experience.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in at least two of the following areas:
  • o Endpoint security and endpoint detection and response
  • o Identity and access management
  • o Security monitoring and incident response
  • o Cloud security
  • o Network security and secure access
• Experience supporting enterprise endpoint, identity, networking, or security technologies.
• Working knowledge of Zero Trust, MFA, IAM, VPNs, network segmentation, cloud security, and incident-response fundamentals.
• Experience with security automation, scripting, APIs, or infrastructure-as-code.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and document sustainable solutions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with security, infrastructure, support, application, and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Intune, Entra ID, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with one or more major cloud platforms, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Exposure to Fortinet, Zscaler, Akamai, Cisco Meraki, or comparable network-security technologies.
• Security+, CySA+, Fortinet, Zscaler, Microsoft, Google Cloud, AWS, Azur