Senior Security Engineer: Incident Response & Cloud Defense

Loadsmart; United States; Remote; USD 36,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

PTO & sick days

Job summary

Loadsmart is a leading logistics technology company seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead security incidents and strengthen our defensive program. You will collaborate with the Blue Team and product squads to detect threats early, respond quickly, and keep applications and infrastructure safe and compliant.

As the second engineer on the Blue Team, you will shape incident response, build detections in Datadog Cloud SIEM, and mentor engineers across squads while engaging with cloud platforms

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Blue team / Defensive security / Security operations.
• Hands-on experience leading security incident response, from detection through post-incident review and follow-up of actions.
• Experience with forensics and evidence handling in cloud environments: log analysis, evidence collection and preservation.
• Experience building and tuning SIEM detections and alerts, such as in Datadog Cloud SIEM, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, CIS or NIST.
• Experience securing AWS and Kubernetes, including AWS IAM and SSO permission reviews and remediation.
• Automating security tasks with Python and/or Bash, and managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Experience defining security processes, leading cross-team initiatives and mentoring engineers, with fluent English for daily work with native speakers.

Responsibilities

• Lead security incidents end-to-end: triage, containment, eradication, recovery, stakeholder communication and post-incident review.
• Own and evolve our incident response process: playbooks, severity model, on-call practices and tabletop exercises with engineering and IT.
• Build and tune detections in Datadog Cloud SIEM across AWS, Kubernetes and Google Workspace to reduce time to detect and alert noise.
• Investigate suspicious activity across cloud, identity and workload logs, collecting and preserving evidence for follow-up.
• Improve our cloud security posture, including IAM, and turn findings into prioritized, tracked work for engineering squads.
• Automate detection and response tasks with Python and Terraform.
• Report on incidents and security posture to engineering leadership, and mentor engineers across squads.

Skills

Blue team

Defensive security

Security operations

Incident response

Forensics cloud

SIEM detections

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Terraform

MITRE ATT&CK

NIST CIS

English

Tools

Datadog Cloud SIEM

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Job description

Loadsmart is a leading logistics technology company seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead security incidents and strengthen our defensive program. You will collaborate with the Blue Team and product squads to detect threats early, respond quickly, and keep applications and infrastructure safe and compliant.

As the second engineer on the Blue Team, you will shape incident response, build detections in Datadog Cloud SIEM, and mentor engineers across squads while engaging with cloud platforms