Senior Security Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Monitor and investigate security alerts across cloud, identity, endpoint, and network environments
• ▹Review logs and activity from AWS, GCP, Active Directory, Linux, and Windows systems and security tools
• ▹Support incident response by gathering evidence, validating suspicious activity, and documenting findings
• ▹Write scripts to automate repetitive security tasks, log analysis, reporting, or enrichment
• ▹Assist with security reviews, including IAM, storage exposure, compute workloads, and network configurations
• ▹Investigate authentication activity, user behavior, privilege changes, and potential account compromise
• ▹Work with internal teams to identify risks and support remediation, compliance, and audit activities
• ▹Be available for after-hours incident response for urgent security events

Requirements

• ▹Experience with cloud security concepts, services, logs, and IAM
• ▹Strong scripting ability, preferably Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• ▹Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Chronicle, Sentinel, or similar
• ▹Working knowledge of Linux and Windows systems, command line, permissions, processes, and logs
• ▹Basic to intermediate understanding of Active Directory (users, groups, authentication, privilege changes)
• ▹Ability to read and interpret logs from cloud platforms, operating systems, and security tools
• ▹Understanding of common security concepts: phishing, credential compromise, privilege escalation, lateral movement, exposed services
• ▹3-5 years of experience in security operations, incident response, systems administration, cloud operations, or similar
• ▹Hands-on experience using scripts to solve operational or security problems
• ▹Comfortable working in cloud and Linux command-line environments

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with Google Cloud Platform security (IAM, Cloud Logging, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPCs, service accounts)
• ▹Exposure to Kubernetes, containers, or cloud-native workloads
• ▹Experience creating automation for security monitoring or response

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Friendly and welcoming environment focused on people, learning & development
• ▹25 vacation days, with extra vacation days based on age and children
• ▹Cafeteria benefit via SZÉP card
• ▹Medicover private health insurance for employees and family members

About the company

Cision is a global communications and media intelligence company that empowers every individual to make an impact, fostering curiosity, collaboration, and innovation across its global team.