
Security Engineer
Echo Global Logistics2 days ago
Chicago, IL, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$98k - $142k/yr
Responsibilities
- Triage, investigate, and respond to SOC alerts while meeting SLAs and following playbooks.
- Lead incident investigations, gather and correlate evidence, and coordinate containment and recovery.
- Build and tune AI-assisted and agentic workflows across SIEM, SOAR, and EDR, including Claude via API.
- Engineer detection rules, queries, and alert tuning mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
- Write and maintain SOAR playbooks and automation scripts to reduce manual effort and accelerate response.
- Conduct proactive threat hunting based on current adversary TTPs.
- Maintain SOC technology integrations, platform health, and detection content.
- Maintain SOX and SOC 2 Type 2 audit evidence, including logging coverage, incident records, and procedures.
- Partner with IT, Cloud, Risk, and Compliance teams to improve telemetry and communicate findings.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 4 years of hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, or threat detection.
- Deep expertise with SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, detection engineering, and incident response.
- Experience writing SOAR playbooks and detection rules or queries in a major SIEM platform.
- Experience operating in SOX and SOC 2 Type 2 environments, including control evidence and audit support.
- Hands-on experience applying AI or large language models to security operations or detection and response.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail, proactive work habits, self-motivation, and interest in continuous learning.
Benefits
- The role is based in an office environment with regular use of a computer, telephone, and other office equipment.
- The position is eligible for a performance-based bonus.
- Additional benefit information is provided through the employer’s careers page.