Senior SOC Engineer | AI-Driven MDR

TENEX.AI; Missouri; On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits package

Opportunities for growth and development

Collaboration with innovative team

Job summary

TENEX.AI is seeking a SOC Engineer to enhance incident response and operational improvement. This role includes assessing telemetry coverage, ensuring detection quality, and collaborating with internal teams. Candidates should have 5+ years in security operations, strong logging and telemetry fluency, and SIEM experience. The position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and be part of a fast-growing startup dedicated to innovation and teamwork.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security operations, incident response, or detection engineering.
• Strong fluency in logging and telemetry.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms.
• Solid understanding of response automation.
• Working knowledge of cloud security architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Scripting proficiency in Python or PowerShell.
• Familiarity applying AI or LLM-based tooling.

Responsibilities

• Handle complex incident response and escalation.
• Assess and improve telemetry and logging coverage.
• Ensure SIEM and detection quality.
• Contribute to response automation quality.
• Support technical needs across the organization.
• Improve SOC tooling and operational workflows.

Skills

Security operations

Incident response

Detection engineering

Logging and telemetry

SIEM experience

Response automation

Cloud security knowledge

Scripting (Python, PowerShell)

Education

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

Tools

Google Chronicle

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

Job description

TENEX.AI is seeking a SOC Engineer to enhance incident response and operational improvement. This role includes assessing telemetry coverage, ensuring detection quality, and collaborating with internal teams. Candidates should have 5+ years in security operations, strong logging and telemetry fluency, and SIEM experience. The position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and be part of a fast-growing startup dedicated to innovation and teamwork.