IT Security Engineer – Operations
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Full Time
2 weeks ago
$105,000 - $125,000 USD
No Visa Sponsorship
Key skills
Entra IDCommunication
About this role
Role Overview
- Monitor and triage security alerts, logs, and suspicious activity across endpoint, email, and identity tools.
- Investigate, contain, and help recover from security incidents and escalated operational issues.
- Maintain and improve detection rules, alerting, response workflows, and security documentation.
- Administer and optimize security platforms, including Microsoft Defender, email security, MFA, and related tools.
- Review and strengthen access controls, privileged accounts, endpoint posture, and system hardening.
- Lead remediation of security gaps and support audits, compliance activities, and policy enforcement.
- Serve as a Tier 3 escalation point for complex server, endpoint, identity, and network issues.
- Support infrastructure maintenance, patching, and operational stability during periods of change.
- Perform root cause analysis, corrective actions, and ongoing risk reduction across the environment.
- Partner with infrastructure, helpdesk, and business systems teams to embed security into new systems, integrations, and operations.
Requirements
- 5–8+ years in IT infrastructure, systems administration, or security-focused roles.
- Experience with security operations, incident response, and operational troubleshooting.
- Hands-on administration of endpoint, email, and identity security tools.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across Windows systems, identity, endpoints, and basic networking.
- Knowledge of risk identification, remediation, and security best practices.
- Familiarity with Microsoft security technologies, including Defender and Entra ID.
- Experience with email security platforms such as Mimecast or similar tools.
- Understanding of identity and access management, including MFA, RBAC, and privileged access.
- Ability to support environments undergoing infrastructure or system change.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D options to our employees and their eligible dependents after meeting Company requirements.
- 401(k) options.
- Disability Insurance.
- Sick pay.
- Vacation pay.
- 10 paid holidays per calendar year (subject to work schedule).
- Healthcare and/or Dependent Care FSAs are also available to our employees after meeting Company requirements.