Security Operations Engineer

About Apollo Apollo.io  combines a buyer database of over 250M contacts  and  powerful sales engagement and automation tools in one, easy to use platform. Trusted by over 160,000 companies including Autodesk, Rippling, Deel, Jasper.ai, Divvy, and Heap, Apollo has more than one million users globally. By helping sales professionals find their ideal buyers and intelligently automate outreach, Apollo helps go-to-market teams sell anything. In the last year, we’ve grown ARR 3x, quadrupled our active users, and closed a $110M Series C led by Sequoia Capital in March of 2022. This year, we continue to grow faster each month with record months of sales and added ARR. We hope you apply. Working at Apollo We are a remote-first inclusive organization focused on operational excellence.  Our way of working ensures clear expectations and an environment to do your best work with ample reward. About the role: The Security Operations Engineer will improve and track Apollo’s security monitoring systems. They will be responsible for investigating and resolving security issues, running incident processes and finding and resolving vulnerabilities. Daily Adventures & Responsibilities: Improve our security monitoring capabilities Develop and roll out our Vulnerability Management Plan. Detect, analyze and follow-up discovered vulnerabilities up to remediation. Be aware of new threats and drive the implementation of countermeasures. Set up and configure protective technologies like vulnerability scanners, IDS, SIEM, WAF, cloud security, and antimalware software. Perform analysis of logs from a variety of sources (e.g., network traffic, hosts, application, databases, proxies) to identify and investigate potential threats. Optimize our incident response Develop and roll out our Incident Response Plan by driving initiatives that improve our capabilities to respond and remediate security events faster. Support and lead security incident response in a cross-functional collaboration environment driving towards incident resolution. Build Security Orchestration and Automated Response capabilities.   What We're Looking For: 3+ years of experience in information security with exposure to implementing security controls across all security domains such as access management, encryption methods, vulnerability management, network security, etc. Hands-on experience in security operations and incident response. Comprehensive understanding of enterprise security architecture and tools. Experience with at least one SIEM, and various EDR and security technologies. Industry-related security certification is preferred (CEH, Security+, CISM, CISSP). Exposure or being knowledgeable of cloud environments is preferred (AWS, GCP). Technical competence with automation Python, JS, Ruby or similar, is preferred. Analytical thinking, time management, and coordination skills. Good written and spoken English proficiency. What You’ll Love About Apollo Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!