Defensive Security Engineer (Remote) presso Vallen Distribution, Inc.
Vallen Distribution, Inc. · Belmont, Stati Uniti d'America · Remote
- Professional
Position Summary:
Vallen’s Defensive Security Engineer will serve as a technical lead in threat detection, incident response, and the continuous development of Vallen’s defensive security tooling and automation. This is a hands-on, engineering-heavy role focused on building, integrating, and optimizing security platforms, from SIEM and SOAR to endpoint and cloud-native defenses.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support daily security operations by performing proactive threat hunting across endpoint, network, identity, and cloud data sources.
- Lead investigation and response efforts for high-fidelity alerts, using behavioral analytics and MITRE ATT&CK-based analysis.
- Manage detection pipelines, detection-as-code frameworks, and automated correlation rules across SIEM, EDR, MDR, and XDR platforms.
- Design and implement automated response workflows in SOAR and XDR platforms.
- Integrate alerting tools with threat intelligence platforms, ServiceNow, and remediation workflows.
- Architect and maintain telemetry ingestion pipelines for logs, cloud-native signals, and third-party integrations.
- Act as SME for Vallen’s security stack: SIEM, SOAR, EDR/MDR, UEBA, CSPM, container security, vulnerability scanners.
- Support the vulnerability management program by contributing to risk analysis, remediation coordination, and process improvement initiatives.
- Tune detection logic, logging schemas, and role-based access control (RBAC) policies across tools.
- Enforce baseline hardening across Windows, Linux, macOS, and Azure-native services.
- Partner with infrastructure and networking teams to implement microsegmentation, traffic analysis, and endpoint enforcement policies on network security platforms.
- Lead integration efforts with platforms like SentinelOne, Fortinet, Proofpoint and O365.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of detection and response capabilities, processes, playbooks, and security tool strategies.
- Develop and maintain clear process documentation for security operations, enabling IT teams to effectively support end users and resolve security-related tickets.
- Monitor threat landscape and threat intelligence resources to ensure emerging threats are proactively accounted for within the security platform suite.