Senior Security Engineer-Ch

The Role: Senior Security Engineer Location: Blue Ash, OH (Onsite) Type: Contract to Hire Job DescriptionThe Senior Security Engineer will support day-to-day Security Operations, with a focus on investigating security events and responding to complex security incidents. This person will lead containment, eradication, and recovery efforts across endpoint, cloud, and identity-related incidents and serve as an escalation point for more complex security events.This is a senior-level individual contributor role requiring strong Security Operations experience, critical thinking, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively in high-pressure situations. The ideal candidate will be able to break down complex technical information and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.Requirements:Strong experience in Security Operations, security investigations, and incident responseHands-on experience investigating and responding to security events and incidentsExperience supporting containment, eradication, and recovery activitiesExperience with security alerts and detectionsExperience developing or maintaining security playbooks and/or runbooksUnderstanding of Security Operations tooling such as SIEM/SOAR, EDR, email security gateways, and firewallsStrong critical-thinking and problem-solving skillsAbility to break down complex technical topics and communicate them clearly to technical and non-technical audiencesStrong written and verbal communication skillsDemonstrated leadership within an individual contributor roleExperience mentoring junior team membersNice-to-Haves:Experience with detection engineeringExperience with rule or alert tuningFamiliarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, including mapping security activity or detections to relevant tactics and techniquesExperience with cloud environments such as Azure, GCP, or AWSFamiliarity with Google Security OperationsExperience contributing to tabletop exercises or security auditsKey ResponsibilitiesLead containment, eradication, and recovery efforts for endpoint, cloud, identity, and other security incidentsServe as an escalation point for complex security events and incidentsInvestigate security events and determine appropriate response actionsContribute to the development and improvement of security playbooks and runbooksProvide feedback to the Detection team to improve the quality of detections, enrichment, and automated responseCollaborate with cross-functional teams to improve logging visibility and response readinessContribute to operational maturity through playbooks, mentoring, tabletop exercises, detections, and auditsMentor junior team members and help build their Security Operations capabilities