Security Operations Engineer

Are you a seasoned SecOps engineer who loves digging into logs, tuning detections, and staying one step ahead of attackers? Have you ever written a Python script just to shave a few seconds off your IR workflow? Maybe threat-hunted in your home lab on a Saturday morning for fun? If so, we want to talk to you! Apollo is hiring a senior and a staff level Security Operations Engineer to join the team.

As a senior member of Apollo’s Security Operations team, you’ll bring deep technical expertise and a collaborative mindset to help us protect and scale our infrastructure securely. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape how SecOps evolves - from detection engineering and incident response, to compliance, automation, and AI security. You’ll work directly with teams across Apollo to reduce risk, meet customer expectations, and ensure that security operations remain a foundation of trust as we scale.

What you’ll do

• Advance Apollo’s detection and response strategy in partnership with engineering and IT leadership

  Implement and maintain adherence to SOC 2 and other cloud security frameworks

  Handle escalations from Sales and Customer Success, including security questionnaires and customer audits

  Build and tune monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to improve visibility while reducing noise

  Drive automation of SecOps workflows to speed up investigation and response

  Guide secure adoption of AI across Apollo - from internal use by engineers to AI-powered product features

  Participate in our on-call rotation (we keep this lightweight and reasonable)

  Who you are

  • A highly experienced SecOps engineer with a strong background in detection, response, and operational security

    Skilled at building and operating modern cloud security controls across AWS, GCP, or similar environments

    Comfortable working directly with engineers to embed operational security practices into their workflows

    Strong communicator who can explain threats and mitigations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences

    Excited about the intersection of AI and security, with ideas for how to safely harness AI while managing its risks

    Motivated by outcomes - not just solving incidents, but building resilient systems and reducing risk at scale
    

  Minimum requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or related fields, including at least 2 years in a staff or senior-level role

    Deep expertise with detection and response in cloud-native environments

    Strong knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar security frameworks

    Experience building and automating security tooling (SIEM, SOAR, custom scripts)

    Proven ability to lead or coordinate incident response across multiple teams

    Track record of influencing operational security culture and practices without direct authority

    Nice to have

    • Experience working with AI security - either in detection, incident response, or product security contexts

      Prior experience supporting enterprise customer audits or due diligence processes

      Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, or other modern infrastructure stacks

      Hands-on experience with threat hunting and detection engineering