Job Description
Overview
The Security Engineer plays a crucial role in our organization, ensuring the security of our systems and data. This position is based in Mexico and will be 100% remote, requiring strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within a distributed team. The Security Engineer will be responsible for implementing and maintaining security measures to safeguard the organization's computer and network systems. They will also play a critical role in identifying potential vulnerabilities and developing strategies to mitigate risks, thereby ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information.
Key responsibilities
The Security Engineer plays a crucial role in our organization, ensuring the security of our systems and data. This position is based in Mexico and will be 100% remote, requiring strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively within a distributed team. The Security Engineer will be responsible for implementing and maintaining security measures to safeguard the organization's computer and network systems. They will also play a critical role in identifying potential vulnerabilities and developing strategies to mitigate risks, thereby ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information.
Key responsibilities
- Designing, developing, and deploying security automations and rules/detections
- Independently triaging, investigating, escalating, and closing security cases
- Assessing and monitoring infrastructure and remediating capability gaps
- Operating and configuring security tools and platforms on workstations and cloud service providers
- Reporting on detection and response processes and metrics
- Assisting in developing forward-thinking security processes as needed
- 3+ years of information security experience or equivalent in relevant academic experience
- Experience building security workflow automations in Python
- Fundamental knowledge of modern operating systems, file systems, networking, and information security
- Expertise in security analysis tools and techniques (Elastic/Kibana, Jupyter notebooks)
- Experience with cloud, CI/CD, and containerized environments (K8s, docker, Ansible/Terraform)
- Detection and response experience within cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Experience owning and managing security monitoring pipelines (ELK stack, beats, agents)
- Experience with EDR, network edge protection, web filtering, or other security tools
- Experience using ML, GenAI to improve security workflows
- Experience analyzing threats according to the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- A bachelor's degree in STEM
- A postgraduate degree in information security