Xformative - Senior Security Operations Engineer

Position Summary

The Senior Security Operations Engineer will own day-to-day security operations across our cloud infrastructure and application workloads while partnering closely with our CTO and Information Security & Risk Officer.

Position Responsibilities

• Detect, Protect, and Respond (Hands-On Security Operations)
• Own day-to-day security operations for AWS-based cloud and serverless workloads including threat detection, alert triage, incident response, forensics, and post-incident learning.
• Build and tune detections and automations (SIEM rules, SOAR/runbooks, detection-as-code) to reduce MTTA/MTTR and eliminate noisy alerts.
• Secure our delivery pipelines & runtime
• Harden CI/CD and software supply chain, and drive “secure by default” patterns in our SDLC.
• Lead cloud/serverless hardening (IaC reviews, policy-as-code, least privilege IAM design, network segmentation).
• Raise the bar across the organization (beyond prod)
• Partner with DevOps and Engineering teams to evolve identity & access, endpoint/EDR posture.
• Coordinate vulnerability management end-to-end: scanning, prioritization, remediation, and reporting.
• Contribute to security governance (policies, standards, tabletop exercises, BCP/DR inputs) and support compliance efforts (e.g., SOC 2/PCI DSS).
• Influence, automate, and measure
• Build security tooling and integrations for engineers, acknowledging that ease of use and low friction will encourage adoption and adherence.
• Define metrics/KPIs and regularly communicate risk & progress to engineering and leadership.
• Mentor engineers on secure design and champion a positive, enablement-first security culture.
• Participate in architecture and threat modeling discussions to identify security risks early in the design process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience in a similar role within the technology sector.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• 5 or more years of large-scale distributed system development.
• Minimum of 3 years’ fintech experience, or equivalent experience with regulated environments with compliance requirements (e.g., SOC2, PCI DSS).
• Minimum of 5 years working in Security Operations/Cloud Security/Blue Team roles, with deep, hands-on experience in AWS (IAM/GuardDuty/CloudTrail/CloudWatch).
• Practical expertise with SIEM/log analytics, EDR, and secrets management (e.g., Vault).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, GCP, Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, ECS).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Github Actions).
• Willingness to participate in a shared on-call rotation for security incidents.