Senior Security Engineer: Cloud, SIEM & IR (Hybrid)

Cybersecurity Jobs; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off and holidays

401(k) with employer match

Wellness programs

Job summary

AAA Washington is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for a hybrid Bellevue-based role. You will implement and operate security controls, investigate events, remediate vulnerabilities, and strengthen security across IT, cloud, endpoint, network, application, and identity environments.

You will support security monitoring and incident response while advising IT and business stakeholders. Expect to improve detection and response via log analysis, rule tuning, and procedures refinement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of information security, cybersecurity, security engineering, infrastructure security, or related discipline.
• Experience implementing and operating enterprise security technologies.
• Strong understanding of network, endpoint, identity, cloud, and infrastructure security principles.
• Experience with security monitoring, incident investigation, and vulnerability management.
• Experience with security tools such as EDR, SIEM, vulnerability management, firewalls, WAF, DLP, IAM, or related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across on-premises, cloud, endpoint, network, application, and identity environments.
• Evaluate security architectures and recommend improvements to AAA Washington's security posture.
• Collaborate with IT and engineering teams to incorporate security into infrastructure, application, and technology projects.
• Develop and maintain secure configuration standards and technical security baselines.
• Participate in security architecture and technology reviews for new systems, applications, vendors, and services.
• Identify opportunities to automate security controls, monitoring, and response activities.
• Monitor security alerts and investigate potential security events and incidents.
• Support incident response work, including investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Analyze security logs and telemetry from SIEM, EDR, identity, network, cloud, and other security platforms.
• Develop and improve detection rules, alerting, and security monitoring capabilities.
• Conduct root-cause analysis after significant security events.
• Participate in incident response exercises and continuously improve response procedures.
• Escalate significant security events in line with AAA Washington incident response procedures.
• Serve as a technical security advisor to IT and business stakeholders.
• Communicate technical security risks and recommendations in ways that fit both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior security engineers and analysts.
• Promote a culture of security ownership throughout AAA Washington.
• Participate in security awareness and education activities when appropriate.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Analytical skills

Independent worker with collaboration

Troubleshooting security issues

Communication to non-technical teams

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

EDR

SIEM

Firewalls

WAF

DLP

IAM

PowerShell

Python

Job description

AAA Washington is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for a hybrid Bellevue-based role. You will implement and operate security controls, investigate events, remediate vulnerabilities, and strengthen security across IT, cloud, endpoint, network, application, and identity environments.

You will support security monitoring and incident response while advising IT and business stakeholders. Expect to improve detection and response via log analysis, rule tuning, and procedures refinement.