Cloud Security Operations Engineer

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About This Role:

We’re looking for a full-time Cloud Security Operations Engineer to join our Security team reporting to the Senior Manager, AI Response & Threat. This role is a remote role based in Mexico.

In this role, you’ll play a key role in strengthening our cloud detection and response practice by defending multi-cloud environments, building cloud detection coverage, leading incident investigations, and developing the tooling and processes that make the team more effective. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a complex enterprise environment and enjoys working cross-functionally with teams like engineering and technical and non-technical stakeholders. The ideal candidate brings strong skills in cloud security operations, incident response, and SIEM detection engineering.

What You'll Do:

• Triage and investigate alerts end-to-end across cloud-native tooling (GuardDuty, Sentinel, Security Command Center), determining severity and scope and closing with documented findings

• Detect and respond to cloud-specific threats, including identity compromise, privilege escalation, access key and token abuse, misconfiguration exploitation, and data exfiltration from cloud storage

• Build detections on cloud audit logs (CloudTrail, Azure Activity and Entra ID logs, GCP Cloud Audit Logs), network flow logs, and container and workload telemetry

• Run proactive threat hunts using ATT&CK-aligned methods, including the Cloud and Containers matrices, to surface attacker activity that automated detection has missed

• Build automation for cloud containment actions, such as credential revocation, instance isolation, and policy quarantine

• Lead incident response from scoping and containment through post-incident review, performing forensics across cloud, host, network, and memory, and reporting clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Build, tune, and maintain SIEM correlation rules and Sigma-based detection-as-code pipelines that reduce noise and improve signal quality

• Own the health and reliability of the SecOps tooling estate, including SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and log ingestion pipelines, with responsibility for coverage, integration uptime, and vendor escalation

• Participate in the on-call rotation, maintain operational runbooks, and contribute to red and purple team exercises

This role may require occasional travel (up to 10-20%) for team meetings, training, or company events. This is not a complete list of responsibilities, and the scope of the role may evolve with the needs of the team and business.

What We're Looking For:

• 4+ years in security engineering, SOC operations (T2/T3), or incident response within a complex enterprise environment, including 3+ years defending production cloud workloads

• Bachelors Degree (or equivalent experience) and/or 5 years of related experience

• Strong knowledge of cloud security architecture and telemetry in at least one major provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including the log sources needed for effective detection and investigation

• Deep understanding of cloud IAM and identity-based attack paths, such as role assumption abuse, federation weaknesses, and long-lived credential compromise

• Hands-on experience investigating real cloud incidents using native cloud logs and forensic acquisition methods

• Experience with cloud-native threat detection services and with ingesting and normalizing cloud logs in a SIEM

• Working knowledge of core cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and serverless) sufficient to assess risk and advise on remediation

• Advanced proficiency with an enterprise SIEM, including detection authoring, correlation rules, pipeline administration, and tuning to reduce false positives at scale

• Working command of MITRE ATT&CK to map detections to technique coverage, identify telemetry gaps, and design hunts against specific adversary behaviors

• Digital forensics experience across host, network, and memory artifacts, including memory acquisition, disk imaging, and multi-source timeline correlation

• Scripting in Python, PowerShell, or Bash, with production automation, log enrichment, or tooling integrations to show for it

Nice-to-have skills or experience:

• CSPM/CNAPP or cloud workload protection experience (Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Defender for Cloud, Orca)

• Experience in multi-cloud environments

• Container and Kubernetes security (EKS, AKS, GKE), including runtime threat detection and image scanning

• IaC for cloud guardrails and security configuration (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• SOAR experience (XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, Torq), including playbook development, API integrations, and case management

• Detection-as-code workflows with CI/CD integration and automated rule validation

• Relevant Professional Certifications: GCIH, GCFE, GCIA, GCDA, OSCP, AWS Security Specialty, or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer

Why You’ll Love It Here:

Gainsight is a place where innovation is shaped through collaboration, curiosity, and a shared focus on solving real-world problems. With a growing suite of products across customer success, product experience, community, education, and AI-powered relationship intelligence, we continue to evolve with the needs of our customers. When people with diverse strengths, a strong sense of community, and true passion for our mission come together, they drive greater impact and create lasting value. What underpins it all is a culture that offers the stability, trust, and support that people need - not just to do the job, but to show up as themselves and feel connected to the work they do. Gainsters love working here for several reasons. Here are a few:

Our Core Values: We are guided by our values and our mission to be living proof you can win in business while being Human-First. Learn more here.

Our Growth Opportunities: From mentoring to career development opportunities, we’re passionate about helping our teammates learn, grow, and thrive.

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If this sounds like the right role for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information:

We’re committed to creating an inclusive, fair, and transparent hiring process. As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming experience for all candidates.

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