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We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to help monitor, investigate, and respond to security activity across cloud, identity, endpoint, and Linux-based environments. This role requires hands-on technical ability, strong scripting skills, and practical experience working with AWS, with GCP experience preferred. 

 

What You'll Do 

• Monitor and investigate security alerts across cloud, identity, endpoint, and network environments. 
• Review logs and activity from AWS, GCP, Active Directory, Linux systems, Windows systems, and security tools. 
• Support incident response by gathering evidence, validating suspicious activity, and documenting findings. 
• Write scripts to automate repetitive security tasks, log analysis, reporting, or enrichment.  
• Assist with security reviews, including IAM, storage exposure, compute workloads, and network configurations. 
• Investigate authentication activity, user behavior, privilege changes, and potential account compromise.  
• Work with internal teams to understand systems, identify risks, and support remediation, compliance and audit activities.
• Be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support. 

What You'll Bring 

• Experience with cloud security concepts, services, logs, and IAM. 
• Strong scripting ability, preferably with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.  
• Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Chronicle, Sentinel, or similar tools.
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows systems, command line usage, permissions, processes, and logs.  
• Basic to intermediate understanding of Active Directory, including users, groups, authentication, and privilege changes.  
• Ability to read and interpret logs from cloud platforms, operating systems, and security tools.  
• Understanding of common security concepts such as phishing, credential compromise, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and exposed services. 
• Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.  

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform security, including IAM, Cloud Logging, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPCs, and service accounts. 
• Exposure to Kubernetes, containers, or cloud-native workloads.  
• Experience creating automation for security monitoring or response.  

Minimum Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in security operations, incident response, systems administration, cloud operations, or a similar technical role. 
• Hands-on experience using scripts to solve operational or security problems. 
• Comfortable working in both cloud and Linux command-line environments. 

What we offer: 

• Friendly and welcoming environment focused on people, learning & development
• 25 vacation days and extra vacation days after age and after children
• Cafeteria benefit via SZEP card
• Medicover private health insurance for employees and their family members
• 10% of your time to work on anything you like, reading groups, tech talks
• Flexible working and working from home
• An extensive people development program, including access to Udemy 

Please note: 

• Candidates must be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support.
• The interview process will include a hands-on practical exercise conducted through screen sharing, where candidates will be asked to demonstrate relevant technical skills. 

 

As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organizations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results. PR Newswire, a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in-depth monitoring, analytics and its Brandwatch and Falcon.io social media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cision's award-winning solutions, including its next-gen Cision Communications Cloud®, visit www.cision.com and follow @Cision on Twitter.

 

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