Security Operations Engineer

Umbra • Santa Barbara, CA

10h • Onsite

About The Position

The Security Operations Engineer is a hands-on technical role responsible for implementing, operating, and continuously improving security controls across Umbra’s corporate technology platforms. This position serves as the primary conduit between Information Security (InfoSec) and IT execution, ensuring security policy is translated into durable, auditable technical controls.
Sitting within Core Infrastructure, this role owns the security configuration control plane for corporate IT, identity, access, network security, endpoint posture, logging, and detection, while partnering closely with InfoSec on risk management, POA&M execution, and audit readiness.
This is an engineering-first role focused on building secure-by-default platforms, not a SOC-only or alert-triage position. The mission is to embed security into Umbra’s core technology platforms by implementing scalable, automated, and auditable security controls that protect the enterprise while enabling speed, reliability, and compliance.
Our aim is to hire this position to work in either our Santa Barbara/Goleta, CA office, Arlington, VA office, or Reston, VA office (coming soon).

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, security operations, or infrastructure security roles.
• Strong hands-on experience implementing security controls across: Identity & Access Management Endpoint management (Windows/macOS) Network and cloud platforms
• Demonstrated ability to translate security policy into technical implementation.
• Experience supporting & automating audit and compliance evidence collection.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills.

Nice To Haves

• 10+ years of experience in security engineering, security operations, or infrastructure security roles.
• Experience with Okta (IdP, SSO, MFA, SCIM, workflows).
• Experience with FortiGate & Cisco Network Technologies.
• Strong Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, VPNs, SD-WAN, routing/switching.
• Proficiency with security tools like firewalls, IDS/IPS, and SIEM platforms.
• Familiarity with regulated environments (NIST, ISO 27001, CMMC, FedRAMP).
• Experience automating security controls or evidence collection.
• Exposure to cloud security tooling and observability platforms.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell to automate routine tasks, security checks, and incident response workflows.

Responsibilities

• Implement and operate technical security controls across identity, endpoint, network, and cloud platforms.
• Translate InfoSec policies, standards, and POA&Ms into enforceable configurations and guardrails.
• Own security configuration hygiene for corporate platforms, ensuring controls are consistently applied and monitored.
• Operate and secure Umbra’s Identity & Access Management (IAM) stack, including IdP, SSO, MFA, SCIM/JIT, and PAM.
• Partner with Core Infrastructure and Digital Workplace to ensure access is least-privilege, time-bound, and auditable.
• Support quarterly access reviews and remediation activities in partnership with InfoSec.
• Partner with Digital Workplace to enforce endpoint security baselines across Windows and macOS.
• Ensure endpoint controls align with InfoSec standards (encryption, patching, device trust).
• Operate platform-level security tooling for endpoint posture, monitoring, and compliance.
• Support security operations across network and cloud environments, including: Firewalls, segmentation, ZTNA/VPN Cloud guardrails and security configurations
• Partner with Core Infrastructure engineers to ensure secure-by-design network and cloud architectures
• Operate and tune logging, monitoring, and detection capabilities across IT platforms.
• Support investigation and response for security incidents in coordination with InfoSec.
• Provide technical context, evidence, and remediation support during incident response activities.
• Act as a primary technical contributor to audit evidence generation for IT-owned controls.
• Maintain documentation, configuration artifacts, and system evidence required for SOC 2, NIST, CMMC, FedRAMP, and related frameworks.
• Partner with InfoSec to ensure evidence is accurate, timely, and repeatable.
• Identify opportunities to automate security controls, evidence collection, and compliance reporting.
• Reduce manual security toil through policy-driven automation and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
• Contribute security improvements to the IT automation backlog via the SMO.
• Collaborate closely with: InfoSec for policy, risk, and assurance Core Infrastructure for platform guardrails Digital Workplace for endpoint and employee-facing security controls Enterprise Applications for app-level security configuration and evidence
• Participate in SMO forums, CABs, and security-related change reviews

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off, Sick, Family & Medical Leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, LTD, STD (employer funded)
• Vol Life, Critical Illness, Accidental, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance (employee funded)
• 401k with 3% non-elective company contribution
• Stock Options
• Free Parking
• Free lunch daily in office

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed