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About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea's leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle - across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities - including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines - assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.
Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.
Apply today to help us achieve our mission.
Senior Security Operations Engineer Summary:
Delinea's Cybersecurity organization is seeking a Senior Security Operations Engineer to lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of Delinea's security detection and response capabilities. This role will be responsible for the engineering of scalable, automated security solutions across endpoint, network, cloud, and data domains. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on engineering experience and the judgment to independently drive security initiatives from concept through production.
This is a remote role that is based in the United States and reports to the Senior Security Operations Manager.
What You'll Do:
• Lead the development, rollout, and operations of security operations tools and services such as SIEM, EDR, NDR, email, cloud; building detection rules, automated playbooks, and integrations
• Serve as a technical resource for security operations analysts; conduct design reviews and provide engineering guidance on detection and response workflows
• Apply a detections-as-code approach; version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and tuned against alert quality metrics
• Architect and implement security engineering capabilities, including endpoint security, data loss prevention, email security, network security, SIEM enhancements, detection engineering, and security automation.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to perform threat modeling and embed security requirements in the development lifecycle.
• Research, evaluate, and operationalize security products and services (including AI enabled platforms), building proof-of-concept integrations, provide recommendations or deferrals on adoption, and driving adoption across the security stack.
What You'll Need:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (or equivalent)
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in a security engineering or security operations role
• Demonstrated ability to independently scope, drive, and deliver multi-month security engineering projects, including but not limited to, security information and event management, endpoint detection and response, network detection and response, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, security awareness, data loss prevention, firewalls, and email security.
• Experience with cloud-native environments (Azure and AWS)
• Experience with cloud security platforms and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure DevOps or similar).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation languages (Python, PowerShell, or Bash) for developing security tools and automating repetitive tasks.
• Proficient in spoken and written English.
We'd Love to See:
• Experience leading or contributing to purple team exercises or threat hunting programs
• Security and/or technical industry certifications (ISC2, GIAC, EC-Council, ISACA, CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft)
• Experience with digital forensic, privileged access management, and penetration testing tools
• Demonstrated working experience at the enterprise level with one or more of: SIEM, EDR, NDR, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, security awareness, DLP, firewalls, and email security.
• Experience working within common regulatory and statutory requirements (GDPR, CCPA, SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST).
For this Job, Delinea is not considering candidates that need any type of US work authorization now or in the future. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J1, etc.
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Why work at Delinea?

• We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

• We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.

• What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do

• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments

• Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team

• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through

• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.
We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.
Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.