SecOps Engineer

Job Description

Are you driven to solve the hard problems where networking, security, and massive scale collide?

Do you thrive on running security operations from detection and response through remediation?

Join our R&D Security Squad

Our team tackles some of the most complex security challenges that accompany our cloud infrastructure and flagship micro-segmentation product, which isolates workloads and services within a network to limit unauthorized movement and reduce risk. By working at the intersection of networking, security, and scalability, we ensure the product can handle real-world enterprise demands while protecting critical assets.

Partner with the best

As a SecOps Engineer, you'll be the operational nerve center of Guardicore's R&D Security Squad, the team protecting the platform we build. Embedded with the engineers creating Guardicore, you'll drive real-time detection, response, and full-lifecycle vulnerability management, turning every finding into measurable risk reduction. If you thrive on hunting threats, reducing signal-to-noise, and driving remediation to closure, this is your arena.

As a SecOps Engineer, You Will Be Responsible For

• Ingesting and analyzing vulnerabilities from tools such as Wiz, Vulcan, Grype, and Tenable, while quantifying impact by exploitability and reachability.
• Building AI automations that streamline the full security operations loop. Auto-triaging and containing SIEM alerts by prioritizing vulnerability data across tools.
• Engineering signal quality by designing correlation searches and tuning detection rules. Automating SOAR playbooks to cut false positives and shrink MTTR.
• Driving remediation governance by generating tickets, assigning owners, enforcing deadlines, verifying fixes through rescans, and collecting evidence comprehensively.
• Building visibility and KPIs through live dashboards for monitoring remediation speed, SLA compliance, MTTR/MTTD, patch age, and risk trends
• Running detection and response, monitoring SIEM telemetry, triaging alerts, mitigating threats, conducting root-cause analysis, aligning TTPs with MITRE ATT&CK, recommending safeguards.
  
  

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• 5+ years in Security Operations, SOC, or Incident Response, handling live incidents and vulnerability remediation end-to-end.
• Develop parsers, analytics, and automation scripts using Python, Bash, or Go; utilize SIEM tools such as Splunk and SOAR platforms.
• Design vulnerability-management dashboards and SLA tracking for leadership visibility.
• Experience triaging and analyzing vulnerabilities, assigning owners, recommending mitigations, and writing clear post-mortem reports.
• Demonstrate expertise in network protocols, Linux/Windows internals, and cloud telemetry such as GCP or AWS.
• Gain experience with vulnerability-management platforms and risk-based prioritization models.
• Present metrics, incident summaries, and remediation roadmaps to both engineers and executives.
• Proactive, clear communication with stakeholders across technical and business teams.
  
  

About Us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.

Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our Focus Is Simple

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.

Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.

Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.

AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

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