[Remote] Xformative - Senior Security Operations Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TASC (Total Administrative Services Corporation) is seeking a hands-on Senior Security Operations Engineer to help secure and scale their platform at Xformative Payment Systems, a company specializing in cloud-native payment processing solutions. The role involves owning day-to-day security operations across cloud infrastructure and application workloads, with a focus on risk identification and automation.
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
Skills
- 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
- Strong programming skills (Node, Typescript)
- Expertise in system administration, networking, and operating systems (Linux/Unix)
- Proficient in automation tools (Github Actions, Cloudformation, Terraform, Serverless, AWS SDK)
- Knowledge of AWS monitoring and logging tools such as Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, SecurityHub, GuardDuty. etc
- Exceptional attention to detail with a preference for highly structured procedures
- Solid grasp of CI/CD security, supply-chain risks, and IaC (Terraform) security reviews
- Strong incident response skills across detection, investigation, containment, and recovery especially in complex cloud-native environments
Benefits
- Our flexible and fully remote work setup allows you to balance your professional and personal life seamlessly
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