Staff Security Engineer - Security Operations

Location: Remote within Ireland. Some scheduling flexibility is expected for cross-timezone standups and incident response with teams in North America and Europe.

Company

hirify.global provides a WebOps platform that helps developers, IT, and marketing teams develop, test, and release website changes reliably.

What you will do

• Command complex security incidents, including data breach scenarios, coordinated attacks, and platform-level events.
• Define and improve incident response methodology, including severity frameworks, escalation paths, playbooks, runbooks, on-call standards, and SLAs.
• Lead MITRE ATT&CK-based threat hunting across cloud, endpoint, and identity environments, converting findings into higher-fidelity detections.
• Set the automation roadmap for triage, enrichment, investigation, and response, and help build the AI-assisted ARES platform.
• Govern the Google SecOps/Chronicle SIEM, covering detection coverage, log source strategy, data quality, and cost.
• Mentor analysts and engineers, communicate operational risk to senior leadership, and support threat intelligence, resilience testing, compliance, and red/purple team activities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of information security experience, including substantial security operations experience and demonstrated command of major incidents.
• Deep practical knowledge of incident response methodologies such as NIST 800-61 or SANS PICERL, with experience building or materially improving an incident response programme.
• Expertise in threat hunting, attacker tradecraft, MITRE ATT&CK, detection logic, and response procedures.
• Hands-on AI and LLM tooling experience, plus an engineering mindset and the ability to work with Python, Bash, APIs, and GCP and/or AWS.
• Experience operating an enterprise SIEM at governance level; Google SecOps/Chronicle is strongly preferred, with Splunk, Sentinel, or Elastic also acceptable.
• CISSP or equivalent security certification depth, along with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within Ireland and collaboration with distributed teams across North America and Europe.
• Industry-competitive compensation and an equity plan benchmarked to the Irish market.
• 28 days of holiday, private medical and dental coverage, life and critical illness insurance, and a workplace pension scheme.
• Top-of-the-line equipment, wellness and reading allowances, and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Team and company-wide events, an Employee Resource Platform, and a culture focused on trust, teamwork, passion, customers, individuality, and balance.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.