Security Operations Engineer (Automation and Ops)
Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity
The ideal candidate will be passionate about cybersecurity, security monitoring and analysis, and developing/automating solutions to ensure that the Security Operations function delivers a high quality service for the organisation.
About the Team
The SecOps team at Nutanix is in charge of keeping our IT systems safe. As a Security Engineer, you will be expected to be skilled at providing operational support through identifying security issues within infrastructure and processes, conduct research and root cause analysis as well as delivering projects by developing coding/automation solutions and maintaining operational systems.
Your Role
Note that this role is a split between operations and project work:
- Response and analysis of security events created by automated systems and people
- Leverage tools to conduct fact based research
- Provide evidence backed root cause analysis
- Troubleshoot technical issues within complex systems
- Technical contribution to complex incidents
- Design, code and implement automated workflows to streamline security operations
- Operate our key security tools and constantly tune and build response playbooks
- Proactively identify gaps, risks and issues and suggest possible solutions
- Act as a consultant/SME on special projects for multiple teams
What You Will Bring
- Able to take ownership of tasks/projects and see through completion in a timely manner in accordance with a mature project management framework (Agile)
- Initiate fact based research on security issues
- Ability to establish priorities, work independently and proceed with objectives
- Willingness to learn, absorb and correlate technical information and then be able to interpret and simplify it
- Strong communication skills to work with both collaborative cross-functional team of peers and departments within the company
- Well organized and able to leverage best practices, able to thrive in fast-paced environment, and most importantly, have the ability to approach problems with a can-do attitude
- Practical experience with one or more programming or scripting language and code repository tools such as Python, VBScript, Perl, TCL, github/gitlab, etc or others
- Understanding of various security technologies including endpoint security, network security, collaboration security, cloud security, SIEM, etc.
- Understanding of OS and application logging, with a focus on security event logging
- General understanding of fundamental security concepts (Security domains - CISSP domains, control frameworks - ISO27001, NIST, etc)
- Practical knowledge of basic networking protocols (TCP/IP stack)
- Experience with Microsoft Windows or Linux or MacOS Operating Systems on a command line level
- Understanding of a security incident response framework
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Nutanix is an equal opportunity employer.
Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled. We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting [email protected].