Posted at: 26 January

SecOps Engineer

Company

GuidePoint Security

GuidePoint Security is a Herndon, Virginia-based B2B cybersecurity consulting firm specializing in tailored security solutions, incident response, and compliance services for commercial and federal organizations.

Remote Hiring Policy:

GuidePoint Security supports remote work and primarily hires from the U.S., with roles available in various regions including the Mid-Atlantic. Most remote positions are limited to U.S.-based candidates.

Job Type

Full-time

Allowed Applicant Locations

United States

Salary

$80,000 to $120,000 per year

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Job Description

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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