IT Security Operations Engineer

Location: Fully Remote

Duration: 12 month contract (high chance of extensions)

Pay Rate: $50/hr W2

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience within IT Security Operations
• 5+ recent years of experience as an Engineer within IT SecOps

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• Proficiency with SIEM, EDR, and Infrastructure‑as‑a‑Service platforms
• Experience developing and enforcing AI governance frameworks, as well as monitoring AI‑driven tools for compliance with regulatory and organizational standards
• Strong communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with senior leadership

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking an IT SecOps Engineer to sit remotely for a large reinsurance client. This role will join the IT Security team and will be responsible for leveraging security operations expertise to oversee and enhance proactive defenses and incident response capabilities.

The engineer will work closely with Security and other IT practice leads to ensure detection logic, incident response workflows, data quality, and automation are continuously improved and effectively managed. The position involves strategic planning, research, testing, and implementation of new solutions, as well as the operation and maintenance of existing tools.

Approximately 65% of the role will focus on operational escalations and collaboration with business users, while the remaining 35% will involve project work as new toolsets are introduced. Responsibilities include refining detection logic and improving alert fidelity across platforms such as CrowdStrike, Taegis, and Varonis, as well as enhancing incident response workflows and updating runbooks to reflect current tooling and evolving threat scenarios.

Additional duties include performing gap analysis and coverage mapping to ensure security data quality, log integrity, and timestamp accuracy, and implementing security automation and orchestration to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency. The engineer will conduct alert reviews, enforce timely and effective incident investigations, and formalize collaboration between offensive and defensive security teams to integrate findings into detection logic and strengthen the overall security posture.

The role also includes performing end‑to‑end security incident response—triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post‑incident analysis—and monitoring AI‑driven tools and platforms to ensure compliance with governance policies, regulatory requirements, and risk management standards.