Senior Security Engineer: Incident Response & Automation

Eleven Recruiting; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Eleven Recruiting is assisting a leading financial services firm in Los Angeles, CA to hire a Security Engineer who will own hands-on security engineering across endpoints, cloud, network, and applications. You will drive detections, automate repeated work, and partner with infrastructure and development teams to embed security into operations.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in information security or security engineering, strong scripting (PowerShell or Python), and experience with regulated

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in cybersecurity, CS, IT, engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of information security or security engineering with hands-on responsibility.
• Experience in financial services, investment management, banking, insurance, or regulated industry.
• Scripting or automation with PowerShell or Python; familiarity with APIs/JSON.
• Broad security knowledge with ability to solve difficult problems independently.
• Experience in a small team environment with broad responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical escalation point for security alerts, investigations, and incidents using security telemetry.
• Independently investigate suspicious activity across endpoint, identity, email, network, cloud, and applications; support or lead incident response.
• Develop, test, and tune security detections, correlations, dashboards, and alerting; improve telemetry quality.
• Build scripts, integrations, and automated workflows to improve security analysis, control validation, and remediation.
• Develop, review, and maintain technical security standards, procedures, and architecture documentation.
• Support design, implementation, configuration, and improvement of enterprise security technologies and controls.
• Partner with IT infrastructure and application teams to integrate security into architecture and operations.
• Assess security configurations across hybrid infrastructure, cloud, SaaS, endpoint, server, network, and identity environments.
• Identify processes suitable for automation with appropriate human oversight.

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

Automation

Threat detection

Security architecture

Cross-team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity or related field

Tools

PowerShell

Python

APIs

Job description

Eleven Recruiting is assisting a leading financial services firm in Los Angeles, CA to hire a Security Engineer who will own hands-on security engineering across endpoints, cloud, network, and applications. You will drive detections, automate repeated work, and partner with infrastructure and development teams to embed security into operations.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in information security or security engineering, strong scripting (PowerShell or Python), and experience with regulated