Senior Solutions Engineer (SecOps Services) - Mid-Atlantic region (Remote in NC,

Senior Solutions Engineer – Security Operations Engineering Services

We are seeking a highly skilled and client-focused Solutions Engineer with deep expertise in Security Operations to support solution design, scoping, and technical engagement efforts. This role requires strong hands-on experience with SOC operations, security engineering, and a consultative approach to customer requirements.

You will partner with sales teams, engineers, and delivery organizations to craft solutions that improve our customers' security detection, monitoring, and response capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage directly with prospects and clients to understand their Security Operations Center (SOC) needs, pain points, and objectives.
• Develop and present customized security operations solutions, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, log management, threat detection engineering, and SOC service offerings.
• Create technical proposals, solution designs, statements of work (SOWs), and RFP responses aligned to customer requirements.
• Lead technical workshops and whiteboarding sessions with prospective customers.
• Map customer environments against cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATTCK, NIST CSF) and recommend improvements.
• Collaborate with delivery and engineering teams to ensure proposed solutions are feasible, scalable, and operationally sound.
• Conduct technical assessments of current security operations environments and identify optimization opportunities.
• Stay current on security technologies, SOC best practices, and threat detection methodologies.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in a Security Operations Center (SOC) environment, with hands-on work in detection engineering, incident response, or security monitoring.
• 3+ years in a client-facing pre-sales, solution architecture, or security consulting role.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM (e.g., Splunk, Elastic, Sentinel, Secops), SOAR, EDR, XDR, and log management technologies.
• Experience designing or optimizing SOC services such as threat detection engineering, alert tuning, threat hunting, incident triage, and response processes.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical security solutions.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks such as MITRE ATTCK, NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS Controls.
• Strong presentation, whiteboarding, and customer engagement skills.
• Excellent technical writing skills for documentation, proposals, and SOWs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SIEM migrations, SOC assessments, or detection-as-code practices.
• Certifications such as CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GMON, GCDA, or equivalent.
• Experience with security data pipelines, log normalization, and cloud-native security monitoring (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Knowledge of MDR/MSSP service models and managed security operations.

Key Attributes for Success:

• Strong client communication and consultative skills.
• Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strategic thinker with tactical execution ability.
• Passion for security operations excellence and continuous improvement.
• Self-motivated, adaptable, and proactive.

Originally posted on Himalayas