Senior Security Engineer - Hybrid/Remote

Tech Ladies®; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

AAA Washington, headquartered in Bellevue, WA, is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to partner with IT and security teams to implement controls, investigate events, and improve security posture across on-premises and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration, incident response, and ongoing security improvements, with a focus on mentoring staff and promoting security ownership within the organization. The position supports hybrid work arrangements in the Bellevue area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in information security, cybersecurity, security engineering, infrastructure security, or a related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated 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 working with security tools such as EDR, SIEM, vulnerability management, firewalls, WAF, DLP, IAM, or related technologies.
• Experience developing security configurations, standards, procedures, and technical documentation.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical security issues.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Security Engineering & Architecture
• Design, implement, and maintain security controls across on-premises, cloud, endpoint, network, application, and identity environments.
• Evaluate security architectures and provide recommendations to improve AAA Washington's security posture.
• Partner 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.
• Security Monitoring & Incident Response
• Monitor security alerts and investigate potential security events and incidents.
• Participate in incident response activities, 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 following significant security events.
• Participate in incident response exercises and continuously improve response procedures.
• Escalate significant security events in accordance with AAA Washington's incident response procedures.
• Collaboration & Communication
• Serve as a technical security advisor to IT and business stakeholders.
• Explain technical security risks and recommendations in language appropriate for 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

Security Engineering

Network Security

Cloud Security

Incident Response

Vulnerability Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Cybersecurity

Tools

EDR

SIEM

Firewalls

WAF

IAM

Job description

AAA Washington, headquartered in Bellevue, WA, is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to partner with IT and security teams to implement controls, investigate events, and improve security posture across on-premises and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration, incident response, and ongoing security improvements, with a focus on mentoring staff and promoting security ownership within the organization. The position supports hybrid work arrangements in the Bellevue area.