Security Operations Engineer I

Security Operations Engineer I

Department: Information Technology

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Redondo Beach

Compensation: $125,000 - $155,000 / year

Description

As a Security Operations Engineer at Impulse, you will support the day-to-day operation, monitoring, and improvement of the organization's security tooling and detection capabilities. This role will work closely with the cybersecurity engineering team and the security operations center to help maintain visibility across endpoint, cloud, identity, and network environments.

This is an ideal opportunity for an early-career security professional looking to grow hands-on experience with modern security operations, SIEM technologies, endpoint detection and response (EDR), cloud security tools, and incident investigation workflows.

The Security Operations Engineer will assist with alert triage, log onboarding, security monitoring, detection tuning, and validation of security controls across enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and investigate alerts from SIEM, EDR, identity, cloud, and network security platforms
• Triage and escalate suspected security incidents to SOC teams and senior security staff
• Correlate logs and telemetry across multiple security tools to support investigations
• Analyze alerts to distinguish false positives from legitimate threats
• Support administration and daily operations of security tools, including Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic, and Wiz
• Assist with identity and access security, firewall, and network security platform management
• Onboard, validate, and maintain log sources within the SIEM environment
• Ensure comprehensive logging coverage and visibility across enterprise systems
• Collaborate with cybersecurity engineering and SOC teams to improve detection capabilities and alert accuracy
• Tune detection rules, reduce false positives, and validate security controls across endpoints, cloud, and identity platforms
• Support vulnerability remediation, security hardening, incident response, and post-incident reviews
• Partner with IT, compliance, and engineering teams while continuously developing expertise in cloud security, endpoint security, SIEM operations, and threat detection

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity, SOC operations, or security engineering
• Familiarity with SIEM and endpoint security tools
• Basic understanding of: Security monitoring and incident response, endpoint detection and response (EDR), cloud and identity security concepts, log analysis and alert triage
• Experience working with or exposure to tools such as: Microsoft Defender, Elastic, Splunk, or Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR, or similar EDR platforms, Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced operational environment

Preferred Skills and Experience

• 5+ years'' experience in cybersecurity
• CompTIA Security+, CySA+, or equivalent certifications
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Basic scripting or automation experience (PowerShell, Python, KQL)
• Experience supporting compliance or regulated environments

Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

Impulse Space's spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.