Engineer Level 3 Security Engineer

Kforce has a client that is seeking an Engineer Level 3 Security Engineer in Blue Ash, OH. Overview: 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. Key Responsibilities:

• Lead containment, eradication, and recovery efforts for endpoint, cloud, identity, and other security incidents
• Serve as an escalation point for complex security events and incidents
• Investigate security events and determine appropriate response actions
• Contribute to the development and improvement of security playbooks and runbooks
• Provide feedback to the Detection team to improve the quality of detections, enrichment, and automated response
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve logging visibility and response readiness
• Contribute to operational maturity through playbooks, mentoring, tabletop exercises, detections, and audits
• Mentor junior team members and help build their Security Operations capabilities
• Communicate technical information effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements:

• Strong experience in Security Operations, security investigations, and incident response
• Hands-on experience investigating and responding to security events and incidents
• Experience supporting containment, eradication, and recovery activities
• Experience with security alerts and detections
• Experience developing or maintaining security playbooks and/or runbooks
• Understanding of Security Operations tooling such as SIEM/SOAR, EDR, email security gateways, and firewalls
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to break down complex technical topics and communicate them clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated leadership within an individual contributor role
• Experience mentoring junior team members

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience with detection engineering
• Experience with rule or alert tuning
• Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, including mapping security activity or detections to relevant tactics and techniques
• Experience with cloud environments such as Azure, GCP, or AWS
• Familiarity with Google Security Operations
• Experience contributing to tabletop exercises or security audits