Principal Security Solutions Specialist

Challenges You Will Solve

The Security Solutions Team is responsible for making sure that our customers are fully prepared for a cybersecurity incident. Our customers know they need to prepare, but do not always have the time, focus, or specific experience to prepare effectively. Our focus is left of the attack, and what our customers can do to avoid or lessen the impact of an incident. 

The Security Solutions Team creates, curates, and delivers security solutions that help our customers train and make better decisions prior to a security event. To our customers, we’re everything from their security personal trainers to their trusted advisors to their attack crystal ball. We have deep backgrounds in Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Security Tooling/Testing/Training, and Risk Identification and Management backgrounds.

What You'll Do

• Take on unique, complex, and interesting customers in order to identify customer-specific methods in which they could improve their security program.
• Use your deep Microsoft Security product knowledge to guide and develop our customer’s security operations. 
• Build, plan, design, and implement security programs to evolve our product offering. 
• Deep dive into the processes, procedures and tools leveraged by the Security Solutions Team to identify areas for improvement and increased efficiency. 
• Collaborate with members of the team identifying proactive outcomes the team can implement, then work to scope, plan, test and implement.
• Identify and implement new products and services for the Security Solutions umbrella
• Help prepare our customers and their environments for cyber incidents through the delivery of all products under the Security Solutions umbrella
• Work with researchers, red teamers, blue teamers and other infosec organizations and collaborate on topics security topics and solutions
• Help shape the operational vision for the Security Solutions umbrella. Collaborate with Intel, Community, and Threat Research to stay abreast of emerging threats, techniques, and tactics. 
• Proactively involved in mentoring Security Solutions Team members by sharing knowledge, skills and experiences.
• Utilize your highly extensive and specialized skills and experience to research and develop training materials and documentation to further the growth of internal teams knowledge. 
• Leverage individual extensive experience and specialized knowledge in order to further research in key Product areas
• Share your success with internal teams, customers, and community.
• Craft realistic training exercises that test an organization’s Readiness for cyber incidents. 

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of working in the and Information Security industry
• Deep expertise in deploying and optimizing Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft 365 Security Workloads
• Experience with identification and remediation of security vulnerabilities and active threats in an enterprise environment
• Experience working within high-pressure environments or with high-value customers
• A keen sense for what customers are looking for in their security solutions and are able to balance security and operational  priorities 
• Experience with identification and remediation of security vulnerabilities and active threats in an enterprise environment
• Technical proficiency in Information Security controls, specifically system-level controls
• Technical proficiency and/or broad expertise with IT/network controls
• Experience with a range of security tool sets to include: EDR, SIEM, digital forensics, and threat emulation and simulation tools
• Strong communication and reporting skills
• Previous consulting or service delivery experience in the security space
• Preferred, Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) experience 

The targeted base salary for this role is $154,500 - $196,000 per year. This role is also eligible for participation in the company's bonus program, and eligible for a grant of stock options, subject to the approval of the company's board of directors. The application deadline is March 28th, 2025.

Benefit Highlights:

- 100% Paid Premiums- Red Canary pays 100% of your medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents. No waiting period.

- Fertility Benefits- All new hires are eligible for benefits as of their first day.

- Flexible Time Off- Take the vacation and sick time you need.

- Health Reimbursement Account- Fully funded by Red Canary to offset out of pocket expenses such as deductibles, coinsurance and copays.

- Flexible Work Environment- With 60% remote workforce, Canaries can work from virtually almost anywhere.

- Paid Parental Leave- Full base pay to bond/care for your new child.