Brandwatch

security engineer in cloud environments

In short

This security operations role involves monitoring and investigating security alerts across cloud (AWS, GCP), identity, endpoint, and network environments, supporting incident response, and automating security tasks with scripting. The company, Cision, provides PR, marketing, and social media management technology, including the Brandwatch and Falcon.io platforms. It requires 3–5 years of security operations experience, strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or PowerShell), SIEM platform experience, and knowledge of Active Directory, Linux, and Windows systems. Candidates must be available for after-hours incident response.

About: Cision provides PR, marketing, and social media management technology and intelligence that helps brands and organizations identify, connect with, and engage customers and stakeholders. Its solutions include PR Newswire, monitoring and analytics services, and the Brandwatch and Falcon.io social media platforms.
Responsibilities:
•Monitor and investigate security alerts across cloud, identity, endpoint, and network environments
•Review logs and activity from AWS, GCP, Active Directory, Linux and Windows systems, and security tools
•Support incident response by gathering evidence, validating suspicious activity, and documenting findings
•Write scripts to automate repetitive security tasks, log analysis, reporting, and enrichment
•Assist with security reviews covering IAM, storage exposure, compute workloads, and network configurations
•Investigate authentication activity, user behavior, privilege changes, and potential account compromise
•Work with internal teams to understand systems, identify risks, and support remediation, compliance, and audit activities
•Be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support
Requirements:
•Experience with cloud security concepts, services, logs, and IAM
•Strong scripting ability, preferably with Python, Bash, or PowerShell
•Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Chronicle, Sentinel, or similar tools
•Working knowledge of Linux and Windows systems, command-line usage, permissions, processes, and logs
•Basic to intermediate understanding of Active Directory, including users, groups, authentication, and privilege changes
•Ability to read and interpret logs from cloud platforms, operating systems, and security tools
•Understanding of common security concepts, including phishing, credential compromise, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and exposed services
•Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills
•3–5 years of experience in security operations, incident response, systems administration, cloud operations, or a similar technical role
•Hands-on experience using scripts to solve operational or security problems
•Comfortable working in cloud and Linux command-line environments
Nice to have:
•Google Cloud Platform security experience, including IAM, Cloud Logging, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPCs, and service accounts
•Exposure to Kubernetes, containers, or cloud-native workloads
•Experience creating automation for security monitoring or response
•Experience with Github/Gitlab
Conditions:
•Candidates must be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support

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