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IT Security Tools Operations Engineer
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise security engineering, IT security operations, endpoint security engineering, network security engineering, or security tools administration.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Operate and maintain enterprise IT security tools and platforms, monitor their health, optimize configurations, and support incident response and compliance.
What you'll do
- Administer security tools, including configuration, patching, upgrades, monitoring, troubleshooting, and availability management.
- Optimize security policies and rules; conduct tool audits and evaluate and deploy new technologies.
- Analyze logs and respond to incidents, while maintaining documentation and supporting users and IT teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on experience operating production security platforms, including deployment, monitoring, maintenance, change management, troubleshooting, and availability.
- Experience with enterprise security technologies and their rollout, configuration, monitoring, upgrades, and remediation.
- Programming or scripting ability, such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or API-based automation; strong understanding of Windows, Linux, endpoint, network, and application security.
Nice to have
- Experience integrating security tools with SIEM, SOC, or incident response teams, or conducting vulnerability validation and security assessments.
- Experience with named security products or relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, Security+, or OSCP.
Tools
Python, Bash, PowerShell, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Tenable
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