Senior Security Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

Lead the response to DLP and data security incidents, including investigation, containment, remediation, and root cause analysis for suspected data exfiltration or improper data handling.

Own the deployment, configuration, and continuous tuning of DLP controls across endpoints, network egress, SaaS applications, and cloud storage to protect PHI, PII, PCI, and other sensitive data.

Develop and maintain DLP policies, rules, and classifications that balance security, usability, and regulatory/client requirements.

Build and refine automated response playbooks and workflows that enrich, triage, and respond to alerts, reducing manual effort and mean time to respond.

Perform proactive hunting for anomalous data movement, including unusual destinations, channels, or volumes.

Define and track key DLP metrics (coverage, detection quality, MTTD/MTTR, false positive rate) and communicate progress to security leadership and cross-functional partners.

Qualifications:

Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, or security engineering roles, with a strong emphasis on data protection and DLP.

Direct, hands-on experience deploying, tuning, and operating

DLP tools (endpoint, network, SaaS, and/or cloud)

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) or similar SaaS security controls in a production environment.

DLP signals into SIEM/SOAR workflows (e.g., CrowdStrike, Splunk, Sentinel)

Advanced scripting/automation skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell, KQL/SQL) used to enrich, tune, and report on DLP/IR telemetry at scale.

Experience designing and maintaining data classification and policy frameworks for PHI, PII, PCI, and other sensitive data types.