Senior Secops Engineer - Dallas

Island Island · Enterprise · Dallas, TX · Engineering

Senior Security Operations Engineer responsible for incident response, cloud security posture management, vulnerability management, and FedRAMP compliance in commercial and GovCloud environments. The role involves leading incident response efforts, managing cloud security across AWS, GCP, and Azure, owning vulnerability management, and driving continuous monitoring for FedRAMP.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead US-timezone incident response efforts, including triage, containment, investigation, stakeholder communication, and post-incident reviews.
  2. Manage and improve cloud security posture across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including Wiz findings remediation, IAM exposure, misconfiguration management, and cloud detection engineering.
  3. Own vulnerability management across web, infrastructure, and container environments, including prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting.
  4. Drive FedRAMP continuous monitoring activities for GovCloud environments, including evidence collection, POA&M tracking, audit support, and compliance operations aligned with NIST 800-53.
  5. Partner with the global SecOps Lead on team strategy, tooling decisions, risk identification, and security improvement initiatives.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in security operations
  • hands-on depth across at least two of: incident response, cloud security posture, and vulnerability management
  • Proven incident responder
  • Solid AWS knowledge (IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, CloudTrail, GuardDuty)
  • Strong communicator across async and sync

Nice to have

  • GCP or Azure experience
  • Hands-on CSPM experience, preferably Wiz
  • Scripting ability and mind-set to reduce manual overhead and build durable workflows

What the JD emphasized

  • FedRAMP compliance
  • ability to work in FedRAMP-regulated environments required