Senior Security Operations Engineer

About the Role

As a member of the Security Operations Team at Samsara, you will collaborate with a global team of engineers to monitor and respond to security events, lead security incidents as Incident Commander, and lead digital forensic investigations in support of Employee Relations, Legal, Compliance, or Information Security cases.

Although you will be focused on security incident response, you will also have the opportunity to create and maintain runbooks, automated workflows, and assist in process refinement and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Monitor security events and provide technical analysis on alerts.
• Lead information security incidents and employee insider investigations by developing incident response strategies, leading execution through closure, and providing updates to key stakeholders.
• Deliver security guidance clearly and concisely for incident response and insider threat initiatives.
• Coordinate the building of services, capabilities, integrations, and implementations of technologies supporting security operations, incident response, and insider threat.
• Champion and embed Samsara’s cultural principles as the company scales globally.
• Participate in an on-call rotation covering weekends, aligned to UK/EMEA operational hours with flexibility for high-severity incidents.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Security Incident Response.
• Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, and legal.
• Ability to build scripts or tools supporting investigation processes, with proficiency in Python.
• Experience mentoring and training security operations engineers on data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Practical experience acting as a lead during security incident response (monitoring, triaging alerts, cross-team coordination).
• Understanding of analysis and forensics techniques on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
• Experience utilizing SIEM tools to perform log reviews.
• Experience in cloud architecture and security (AWS, GCP) and cloud-based services.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations outside standard business hours when responding to high-severity incidents.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience working on insider threat initiatives or employee investigations.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (or relevant industry experience).
• GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) or similar certification.
• Familiarity with common security frameworks and standards (NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001, FedRAMP).