Senior Security Operations Engineer

Southland Industries, Inc.; Carrollton (TX); On-site; USD 91,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match and company contributions

Medical, dental, vision insurance (100

Annual bonus program

Life insurance and AD&D

Disability income protection

Pre-tax flexible spending plans

Paid parental leave

Paid holidays and vacation

Professional development and training

Job summary

Southland Industries is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our security operations team in Carrollton, TX. This hands-on role investigates alerts, responds to incidents, and improves operational workflows across endpoints, servers, cloud services, and business systems.

You will partner with cybersecurity, IT, and business teams to document findings, drive remediation, and enhance detection and response capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on security operations, incident response, threat detection, or vulnerability experience.
• Experience with EDR, SIEM, email security, identity security, vulnerability management, ITSM, or similar tools.
• Solid understanding of alert triage, endpoint security, identity risk, cloud security, and response workflows.
• Experience supporting investigations, incidents, vulnerabilities, tool tuning, or process improvement.
• Ability to work well with both business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Strong communication skills and a practical, straightforward approach.
• Interest in tools that improve visibility, automation, reporting, and day‑to‑day execution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field is preferred.
• Minimum 4 – 6 years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, IT operations, networking, or related role.

Responsibilities

• Build strong working relationships with cybersecurity, IT operations, infrastructure, support, vendors, and business teams.
• Serve as a hands-on resource for operations questions, escalations, incidents, and follow‑up work.
• Investigate alerts from EDR, SIEM, email, identity, vulnerability, cloud, and endpoint tools.
• Review alert details, logs, user activity, endpoint data, and related context to determine risk.
• Support incident response activities, including scoping, containment, remediation, and recovery follow‑up.
• Coordinate with IT, support, infrastructure, and business owners during response and remediation work.
• Follow up on vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, exposure, and operational findings through closure.
• Help reduce disruption by keeping response work organized, practical, and timely.
• Use security operations tools such as EDR, SIEM, email security, identity security, vulnerability management, and ITSM platforms.

Skills

Hands-on security operations

Incident response

Threat detection

Vulnerability experience

Communication skills

Cross-team collaboration

Automation and tooling awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/Information Systems/CS

Tools

EDR

SIEM

Email security

Identity security

Vulnerability management

ITSM

Job description

Southland Industries is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our security operations team in Carrollton, TX. This hands-on role investigates alerts, responds to incidents, and improves operational workflows across endpoints, servers, cloud services, and business systems.

You will partner with cybersecurity, IT, and business teams to document findings, drive remediation, and enhance detection and response capabilities.