Senior Solutions Engineer (SecOps Services) - Mid-Atlantic region (Remote in NC, VA, WV, MD, DC[...]

GuidePoint Security, LLC; Odessa (TX); Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a highly skilled Solutions Engineer to enhance security operations for clients. In this role, you'll leverage your expertise in SOC environments to design tailored security solutions that improve detection, monitoring, and response capabilities. Collaborating with sales and engineering teams, you'll lead technical workshops and create proposals that align with customer needs. This position offers the chance to work with top organizations, ensuring their security posture is robust and effective. Join a rapidly growing company that values innovation and employee development, and be part of a team dedicated to excellence in cybersecurity.

Benefits

Group Medical Insurance

Group Dental Insurance

Flexible Time Off

Mobile Phone Allowance

Home Internet Allowance

Retirement Plan Eligibility

Pet Benefit Option

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a Security Operations Center (SOC) environment.
• 3+ years in a client-facing pre-sales or security consulting role.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR technologies.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to understand their SOC needs and objectives.
• Develop customized security operations solutions and proposals.
• Conduct technical assessments of current security operations.

Skills

Detection Engineering

Incident Response

Security Monitoring

Client Engagement

Technical Writing

Security Frameworks

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SIEM (Splunk, Elastic, Sentinel)

SOAR

EDR

Threat Detection Engineering

Job description

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation's top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

Senior Solutions Engineer - Security Operations Engineering Services

We are seeking a highly skilled and client-focused Solutions Engineer with deep expertise in Security Operations to support solution design, scoping, and technical engagement efforts. This role requires strong hands-on experience with SOC operations, security engineering, and a consultative approach to customer requirements.

You will partner with sales teams, engineers, and delivery organizations to craft solutions that improve our customers' security detection, monitoring, and response capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage directly with prospects and clients to understand their Security Operations Center (SOC) needs, pain points, and objectives.


• Develop and present customized security operations solutions, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, log management, threat detection engineering, and SOC service offerings.


• Create technical proposals, solution designs, statements of work (SOWs), and RFP responses aligned to customer requirements.


• Lead technical workshops and whiteboarding sessions with prospective customers.


• Map customer environments against cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF) and recommend improvements.


• Collaborate with delivery and engineering teams to ensure proposed solutions are feasible, scalable, and operationally sound.


• Conduct technical assessments of current security operations environments and identify optimization opportunities.


• Stay current on security technologies, SOC best practices, and threat detection methodologies.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experiencein a Security Operations Center (SOC) environment, with hands-on work in detection engineering, incident response, or security monitoring.


• 3+ years in a client-facing pre-sales, solution architecture, or security consulting role.


• Strong knowledge of SIEM (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, Sentinel, Secops), SOAR, EDR, XDR, and log management technologies.


• Experience designing or optimizing SOC services such as threat detection engineering, alert tuning, threat hunting, incident triage, and response processes.


• Ability to translate business requirements into technical security solutions.


• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS Controls.


• Strong presentation, whiteboarding, and customer engagement skills.


• Excellent technical writing skills for documentation, proposals, and SOWs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SIEM migrations, SOC assessments, or detection-as-code practices.


• Certifications such as CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GMON, GCDA, or equivalent.


• Experience with security data pipelines, log normalization, and cloud-native security monitoring (AWS, Azure, GCP).


• Knowledge of MDR/MSSP service models and managed security operations.

Key Attributes for Success:

• Strong client communication and consultative skills.


• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.


• Strategic thinker with tactical execution ability.


• Passion for security operations excellence and continuous improvement.


• Self-motivated, adaptable, and proactive.

We use Greenhouse Software as our applicant tracking system and Zoom Scheduler for HR screen request scheduling. At times, your email may block our communication with you. Please be sure to check your SPAM folder so that you don't miss updates on your application.

Why GuidePoint?

GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1000 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 4,200 customers.

Firmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company's success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. At GuidePoint, your colleagues are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced and will seek to collaborate and provide mentorship and guidance at every opportunity.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to grow your career along with one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.

Some added perks....

• Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)


• Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family) and GPS will contribute in one lump sum: ($500 per EE annually / $1000 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)


• Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans


• 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program


• Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance


• Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment


• Pet Benefit Option