Senior Security Operations Engineer – Incident Response

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

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Annual bonus program

Life insurance

Disability income protection

Flexible spending plans

Paid parental leave

Paid holidays and vacation

Professional development

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Southland Industries is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join Security Operations, supporting monitoring, incident response, and vulnerability management across users, endpoints, servers, cloud services, and business systems.

You will investigate alerts, coordinate with IT and business teams, help improve workflows, and document actions to ensure timely remediation and measurable security improvements. This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced, employee-owned environment.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience with EDR, SIEM, email security, identity security, vulnerability management, ITSM, or similar tools.
• Strong hands-on security operations, incident response, threat detection, or vulnerability experience.

Responsibilities

• Build strong working relationships with cybersecurity, IT operations, infrastructure, support, vendors, and business teams.
• Investigate alerts from EDR, SIEM, email, identity, vulnerability, cloud, and endpoint tools.
• Support incident response activities, including scoping, containment, remediation, and recovery follow-up.
• Use security operations tools such as EDR, SIEM, email security, identity security, vulnerability management, and ITSM platforms.
• Document investigations, incident notes, playbooks, runbooks, escalation paths, and decision points.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Threat detection

Vulnerability management

IT operations

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

EDR

SIEM

Email security

Identity security

Vulnerability management tools

ITSM platforms

Job description

Southland Industries is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join Security Operations, supporting monitoring, incident response, and vulnerability management across users, endpoints, servers, cloud services, and business systems.

You will investigate alerts, coordinate with IT and business teams, help improve workflows, and document actions to ensure timely remediation and measurable security improvements. This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced, employee-owned environment.