Security Engineer - (Mexico based, 100% Remote)

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

• 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
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 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)
  
  

Nice to have

• 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
  
  

Skills: information security,security tools,security,python,networking,ci,cd,terraform,azure,docker,aws