Senior Security Operations Engineer: AI-Driven Defense

WoodmenLife; Omaha (NE); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WoodmenLife in Omaha, Nebraska, seeks a Security Operations Engineer or Sr. Security Operations Engineer to advance our cybersecurity program.

You will lead threat hunting, incident response, automation, and IAM initiatives within a collaborative Risk Division. The role blends hands-on engineering with mentoring, offering hybrid work and opportunities to shape security playbooks, detections, and AI-enabled workflows across enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• Associate degree or equivalent experience in information security or CS.
• At least 3 years in security operations, incident response, or security engineering.
• Experience with security monitoring, threat detection, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents across enterprise systems.
• Perform triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident analysis.
• Develop and optimize detection rules and alerting capabilities.
• Build and maintain automated security workflows and playbooks.
• Support IAM provisioning and access governance initiatives.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

Detection engineering

Automation development

Identity security

AI-enabled workflows

Security monitoring

Team collaboration

Education

Associate degree in Information Security or related field

Bachelor's degree in Information Security or related field

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Azure DevOps

Power Automate

Python

Tenable

SIEM platforms

Job description

WoodmenLife in Omaha, Nebraska, seeks a Security Operations Engineer or Sr. Security Operations Engineer to advance our cybersecurity program.

You will lead threat hunting, incident response, automation, and IAM initiatives within a collaborative Risk Division. The role blends hands-on engineering with mentoring, offering hybrid work and opportunities to shape security playbooks, detections, and AI-enabled workflows across enterprise systems.