As a Senior Security Operations Engineer at Island, you will be the security anchor for our US operations - owning incident response, cloud security posture, vulnerability management, and FedRAMP compliance across our commercial and GovCloud environments. You will operate as the US-side peer to our global SecOps Lead, driving both day-to-day execution and longer-term improvements to how we detect, triage, and close risk across the stack.
Key Responsibilities- Lead US-timezone incident response efforts, including triage, containment, investigation, stakeholder communication, and post-incident reviews.
- Manage and improve cloud security posture across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including Wiz findings remediation, IAM exposure, misconfiguration management, and cloud detection engineering.
- Own vulnerability management across web, infrastructure, and container environments, including prioritization, remediation tracking, and reporting.
- Drive FedRAMP continuous monitoring activities for GovCloud environments, including evidence collection, POA&M tracking, audit support, and compliance operations aligned with NIST 800-53.
- Partner with the global SecOps Lead on team strategy, tooling decisions, risk identification, and security improvement initiatives.
Qualifications- 5+ years of experience in security operations, with hands-on depth across at least two of: incident response, cloud security posture, and vulnerability management.
- Proven incident responder - comfortable leading triage and containment under pressure, writing clear timelines, and running post-mortems.
- Solid AWS knowledge (IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, CloudTrail, GuardDuty); GCP or Azure experience a plus. Hands-on CSPM experience, preferably Wiz.
- Strong communicator across async and sync - able to translate technical findings into business risk for engineering leads and senior stakeholders.
- Scripting ability and mind-set to reduce manual overhead and build durable workflows is a plus.
Dallas, TX - US citizens only; ability to work in FedRAMP-regulated environments required.
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