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At Digital Turbine, we make mobile advertising experiences more meaningful and rewarding for users, app publishers, and advertisers - intelligently connecting people in more ways, across more devices. We provide app publishers and advertisers with powerful ads and experiences that captivate consumers, fuel performance, and help telecoms and OEMs supercharge awareness, acquisition, and monetization. In a rapidly evolving industry, we are constantly innovating and creating better paths of discovery to connect consumers, publishers, and advertisers across the mobile ecosystem.

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Digital Turbine is seeking a Principal Security Operations Engineer professional to drive the evolution of our global Security Operations Center (SOC).

As the Principal Security Operations Engineer, you will serve as the company's foremost expert on detection engineering, incident response, and cloud security operations across our multicloud (GCP and AWS) environment. The role focuses on technical leadership, operational excellence, and partnership with internal and external teams to ensure resilient 24x7 monitoring and response capabilities.

This fulltime role comes with a bonus plan, equity plan, 401K and unlimited PTO.

About you as the Principal Security Operations Engineer:

• 12+ years of cybersecurity experience with deep expertise in security operations, threat detection, or incident response within global enterprise or SaaS environments.

• Significant handson experience developing and managing SOC functions for GCP and AWS, including cloud logging, monitoring, and automation.

• Strong familiarity with MSSP models, understanding how to measure and improve service quality through engineering insight and data.

• Proficiency with SOC tooling such as CrowdStrike, Orca, SIEM/SOAR platforms, and related telemetry and automation tools.

• Deep understanding of modern adversary tradecraft, cloud attack paths, and detection engineering frameworks.

• Experience supporting or interfacing with compliance programs such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or SOX.

• Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to present technical findings and risks to both engineers and executives.

• Advanced security certifications such as CISSP, GCIH, GCFA, CISM, or CCFR are highly desirable.

• Google Cloud certifications (e.g., Professional Cloud Security Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect) preferred.

About the role of the Principal Security Operations Engineer:

• Serve as the primary technical authority for Digital Turbine's SOC ecosystem and cloud threat detection strategy.

• Optimize and mature our relationship with a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), ensuring detection quality, response speed, and continuous tuning meet DT's requirements.

• Lead and execute complex incident investigations, encompassing triage, analysis, containment, and remediation across GCP, AWS, and containerized workloads (Kubernetes, serverless, etc.).

• Design and maintain advanced detection and automation use cases using SIEM, SOAR, and log management platforms, tailored to DT's cloud environments.

• Operationalize and finetune tools such as CrowdStrike, Orca Security, and related platforms to maximize visibility and protection coverage.

• Develop, test, and enhance incident response playbooks and threathunting methodologies aligned with MITRE ATT&CK and industry best practices.

• Plan, coordinate, and execute tabletop exercises, as well as business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) drills, to validate response readiness and crossteam coordination

• Define and track SOC performance metrics (e.g., MTTD, MTTR), producing clear and actionable insights for leadership and technical stakeholders.

• Collaborate with DevOps, application engineering, GRC, and legal teams to embed operational security practices that support compliance and business goals.

• Contribute to vendor selection, tooling evaluation, and threat intelligence initiatives that strengthen DT's overall security posture.

• Act as a mentor and thought leader for peers and crossfunctional partners on detection engineering, incident response, and cloud security best practices.

About Digital Turbine:

Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS) powers superior mobile consumer experiences and results for the world's leading telcos, advertisers and publishers. Our end-to-end platform uniquely simplifies the ability to supercharge awareness, acquisition and monetization - connecting our partners to more consumers, in more ways, across more devices.

The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Berlin, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and other cities around the world, serving top agency, app developer, and advertising markets.

We are honored to have achieved numerous awards as an employer of choice, around the world, including: BuiltIn's Best Places to Work Awards in 2022, 2023 and 2024, DUNS 100 Best Places to Work in Tech for 2023 and 2024, and BDICode's 100 Best Companies to Work in 2024.

Digital Turbine is an equal opportunity employer committed to exemplifying diversity and inclusion around the world. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We embed diversity in our mindset, products, and teams to empower an inclusive, equitable, and culturally fluent environment. Building and continuously fostering this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators, partners, and innovators.

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