Senior Security Engineer, SecOps

Company: Greenlight
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Location: Bengaluru
Job Description:

What you will be doing:

  • Serve as a frontline responder for security incidents — triage alerts, lead investigations, coordinate cross-functional response efforts, and drive post-incident reviews and remediation
  • Monitor and tune security tooling and detection rules to identify threats across our cloud infrastructure and applications; reduce false positives and improve signal quality
  • Perform proactive threat hunting to identify attack patterns, anomalous behavior, and gaps in detection coverage
  • Support and maintain security controls across our AWS environment, including monitoring for misconfigurations, access issues, and infrastructure risks
  • Contribute to building and improving security automation, scripts, and internal tooling to reduce manual overhead and enhance operational efficiency; grow into deeper engineering contributions over time
  • Own the enterprise vulnerability management program, establishing risk-based prioritization frameworks and driving organization-wide remediation strategies
  • Spearhead AI/ML integration and automation initiatives to transform security operations, reduce manual overhead, and enhance detection capabilities
  • Assist with and contribute to AI-driven security initiatives and automation efforts within the team
  • Support ongoing security compliance, audit, and certification programs (e.g., PCI, SOC2)
  • Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to provide security guidance and support security-by-design practices
  • Participate in team knowledge sharing, document runbooks and playbooks, and contribute to continuous improvement of SecOps processes
  • Participate in on-call rotation and serve as a first responder to security event escalations
  • What you should bring:

  • 6+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or a security analyst role, preferably in cloud-centric environments
  • Strong hands-on experience with incident response and investigation alert triage, forensic analysis, root cause determination, and remediation
  • Solid understanding of common attack vectors, threat intelligence fundamentals, and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
  • Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals (AWS) IAM, VPC, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, or equivalent services
  • Familiarity with TCP/IP protocols, network analysis, and common network/security tooling (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS)
  • Demonstrated ability to identify exploits, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations and drive remediation in cloud and server environments
  • Growth mindset genuine interest in developing engineering skills (scripting, automation, tooling) and growing beyond a pure analyst role
  • Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to security event escalations
  • Team player comfortable collaborating across India and US teams (primarily PST timezone)
  • Nice to have:

  • Experience with scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, etc.)
  • Experience with public cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Red/Blue team experience
  • Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, Security+, CEH, GIAC)
  • Posted: February 11th, 2026