Senior Security Engineer

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators who are focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

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Team Description: This is a key role supporting cyber incident response, threat hunting, and threat detection/automation within Anaplan’s security operations team. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in keeping Anaplan secure. This role operates in a small, agile team with broad responsibilities, providing flexibility and autonomy to apply your expertise dynamically.

Your Impact:

• Monitor, analyse, and triage alerts generated by a variety of tools and services.
• Lead investigations into security incidents, supporting the organization through the incident response lifecycle.
• Conduct log analysis across a diverse ecosystem of technology to locate the root cause of incidents.
• Leverage automation to drive improvements in threat detection, incident response, and enterprise security.
• Develop, mature, and test incident response processes to improve organizational resilience.
• Lead threat hunting activities and leverage threat intelligence to continuously improve our ability to detect threats.
• Evaluate, deploy, operate, and mature security tooling supporting security monitoring, incident response, data loss prevention, network security, and email security.
• Maintain on-call availability to support after-hours coverage.

Your Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as an incident responder or forensic analyst within a global SOC, security engineering, or enterprise security team.
• Strong knowledge of the kill-chain model, ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) framework, and modern red team tactics and techniques.
• Strong knowledge of one or more programming/scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell) to automate security processes.
• Experience working with modern technology stacks, including cloud and container-based workloads.
• Experience managing security tools across Mac, Windows, and Linux environments.
• Understanding of various attack vectors, threat tactics, and attacker techniques, including APTs, malware, DDoS, exploits, and phishing.
• Ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations and manage change.
• Experience working with remote, globally distributed teams.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working in a SaaS or enterprise environment
• Prior experience with CrowdStrike and other EDR/XDR tools.
• Strong background in security automation, building playbooks, and scripting security use cases.
• Hands-on experience leading threat-hunting initiatives and proactive security investigations.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical work with broader strategic security initiatives.

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