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Position Overview
In this role, you will be joining an operations focused engineering team on the front line of protecting our products, infrastructure and applications. You will partner with internal stakeholders to drive security logging and detection engineering programs, implement state of art security technologies, build, and manage security platforms that help secure the brand and protect Alteryx products, infrastructure, and applications.
Primary Responsibilities
Support security data engineering efforts involving architecting, designing and operationalization of ETL pipelines and data warehouse solutions such as Snowflake
Drive threat detection engineering efforts to prevent, detect, contain, and manage security risks, assist with security incidents, investigations, and root-cause analysis
Support security automation program to enable security teams to scale to handle growing workloads based on various business process automation requirements
Drive security engineering initiatives to support threat management and security operations priorities
Collaborate with internal customers to develop requirements and prioritize work projects based on outcomes that drive risk reduction and operational effectiveness
Support peer and customer organizations in successful outcomes with respect to security requirements.
Provide guidance and training to other team members and stakeholders on cloud security best practices and procedures
Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and developments in cloud security and incorporate new technologies and approaches as appropriate
Requirements
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience/training, Master s Degree in Computer Science a plus
8+ years experience in security engineering or various security roles with experience across the technology stack
Ability to build out a security logging and monitoring capability that is based on automation and orchestration at scale
Deep understanding in security logging best practices and strong experience in technologies such as Snowflake, Azure Sentinel, Splunk, ELK, Kafka, Spark, Pub/Sub, etc.
Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and demonstrated ability to apply that knowledge to enhance threat detection, response capabilities, and security posture across the organization.
Knowledge in developing ETL pipelines in and out of data warehouse using Python and Snowflake Snow SQL.
Strong experience in operating in major cloud environments such as AWS, GCP or Azure and the security best practices
Strong experience with DevOps tools and practices, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, OpenTofu or Ansible, and containerization technologies like Docker & Kubernetes.
Experience in building and implementing security solutions such as SOAR, Email Security, EDR, DLP, Threat Detection Engineering, etc.
Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Perl, PowerShell or Shell script
Knowledge of network devices, firewalls, IDS/IPS, TCP/IP protocols, and general network architecture
CISSP/CISM, SANS, CNSE (Palo Alto Networks), CCNP, CCIE, or other Networking and Security certifications a plus
This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.