GuidePoint Security
SecOps Engineer - North Central region (Remote in the U.S.)
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.
Role:
A SecOps Engineer is a professional responsible for integrating security practices into the operational workflow of an organization. They bridge the gap between IT operations and cybersecurity teams, ensuring that systems, networks, and applications are secure while maintaining operational efficiency.
What you’ll get to do:
As a SecOps Engineer, you will ensure that security is not just an afterthought but an integrated part of the IT operations. They protect organizations against evolving threats while enabling business processes to remain secure and efficient. Their work is critical for maintaining compliance, and overall integrity of the organization's digital infrastructure.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Ability to autonomously prioritize and successfully deliver across a portfolio of projects.
- Learn and keep up with current cyber threats, attack methodology, active campaigns, and detection techniques using a wide variety of capabilities and sources (GOTS, COTS, and Open Source).
- Understand and utilize cyber threat intelligence sources.
- Familiarity with key security events on common IT platforms.
- Experience authoring security runbooks, policy, and best practice documentation.
- Preferred experience in the areas of SecOps, Security Analytics, SIEM/SOAR, etc.
- Proficiency in developing log ingestion and aggregation strategies.
- Expertise developing security-focused content for one or more SIEM platforms (Splunk, CrowdStrike NG-SIEM, Elastic Security or Palo Alto XSIAM), including creation of complex threat detection logic and operational dashboards.
- Understand and articulate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Ideal Candidates will also have:
- Demonstrated experience in the identification and assessment of the relevance and effectiveness of signatures and indicators of compromise based on intelligence.
- Experience developing and providing regular and ad hoc briefs, documents, diagrams and other products.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree or relevant work experience and certifications (MITRE, SIEM, SOAR, CompTIA, SANS, etc).
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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 1,200 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 6,200 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). If you choose the High Deductible / HSA plan, GPS will contribute in 4 equal quarterly installments: ($850 per EE annually / $1750 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
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