Senior Security Engineer
Remote · South Africa or Pakistan
Job Summary
Senior Security Engineer responsible for Tier 3 incident escalation and hands-on operation of the gShield security stack across client environments. Focus on incident response, log analysis, IOC hunting, containment and remediation actions, and collaboration with SOC, vCISO, and onboarding teams. Operates and tunes security tooling (e.g., Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Huntress, DNSFilter, SIEM) to support detection, alert triage, vulnerability analysis, and client hardening, while developing SOPs, runbooks, and response procedures. Requires strong technical leadership during live security events, documentation skills, and ability to drive security improvements across managed environments.
Required Qualifications
- 5–7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, security engineering, or incident response roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with incident response, threat detection, and security operations workflows.
- Experience working with security platforms such as Microsoft Defender, Huntress, DNSFilter, SIEM solutions, vulnerability management tools, and endpoint security technologies.
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