Senior Security Operations Engineer

Karman Space & Defense; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Health Savings Account (HSA) with公司

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Company-paid life and AD&D insurance

Short- and long-term disability

Job summary

Karman Space & Defense in Huntington Beach, CA is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to protect our systems, identities, data, and operations through security monitoring, threat detection, investigation and incident response across a multi-site environment.

You will collaborate with internal teams and external providers to improve visibility, strengthen detection capabilities, support timely response efforts, and continuously enhance our cybersecurity posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, IT, CS, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Four+ years in cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, detection engineering, or related discipline.
• Hands-on experience investigating security events and assessing scope and impact.
• Experience with SIEM or security monitoring platforms like Microsoft Sentinel.
• Familiarity with endpint, identity, cloud, email, or network security telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Monitors and investigates security activity across SIEM, endpoint, identity, email, cloud, network and other telemetry sources.
• Develops, tests, tunes, and documents detections, analytics, alerting logic, and monitoring capabilities.
• Performs threat hunting, identifies gaps, and improves visibility across critical environments.
• Investigates identity compromise, malware, phishing, endpoint compromise, unauthorized access, and suspicious cloud activity.
• Defines scope, impact, assets, identities, users, and data for containment actions during incidents.
• Coordinates containment and remediation with technology teams and external providers.
• Preserves evidence, documents findings, validates remediation, and escalates significant exposures.
• Engages stakeholders during investigations and provides evidence to support decisions.
• Collaborates with SOC and MSSP partners to improve investigation quality and response outcomes.
• Supports security metrics and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

SIEM

Threat hunting

Incident response

Analytics

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Sentinel

Kusto Query Language (KQL)

MITRE ATT&CK

Job description

Karman Space & Defense in Huntington Beach, CA is seeking a Security Operations Engineer to protect our systems, identities, data, and operations through security monitoring, threat detection, investigation and incident response across a multi-site environment.

You will collaborate with internal teams and external providers to improve visibility, strengthen detection capabilities, support timely response efforts, and continuously enhance our cybersecurity posture.