Staff Security Engineer Security Operations

About Pantheon

Pantheon is the WebOps platform for websites that deliver extraordinary results. We believe in putting the magic of the internet in everyones hands. Thats why were so passionate about helping developers IT and marketing develop test and release As a Staff Security Engineer SecOps youll be the strategic and technical anchor of Pantheons security operations function setting the long-term direction for detection response and operational resilience while staying hands-on with the hardest engineering problems. This role operates at the intersection of architecture program leadership and deep technical execution: you will define how Pantheon detects and responds to threats at scale own the maturity roadmap for the SecOps capability and drive alignment across Engineering Infrastructure GRC and executive leadership.

At the staff level your impact extends beyond your own output. Youll shape how the broader engineering organisation thinks about security influence tooling and platform decisions across teams and serve as a principal voice for SecOps in architectural and product discussions. You will also be Pantheons lead on EU regulatory requirements NIS2 GDPR and related frameworks ensuring operational controls meet the bar required for a company operating in the Irish and broader European market.
Pantheons core values are Trust Teamwork Passion and Customers First. We value individuality humour and balance and we actively contribute to open-source communities. If youre ready to own the security operations vision at a company that ships critical infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of sites this is your role.

The Role

As a Senior Security Engineer SecOps youll be the backbone of Pantheons security operations designing implementing and running the detection and response capabilities that keep our platform and customers safe. You will lead efforts in threat detection incident response and operational resilience while driving automation and scalable processes to mature Pantheons security posture.

This is a hands-on role with leadership expectations: youll own key SecOps technologies shape incident response strategy and mentor engineers across teams in security best practices.

Pantheons core values are Trust Teamwork Passion and Customers First. We value individuality humor and balance and we actively contribute to open-source communities. If youre excited about modern SecOps and thrive on solving complex security problems this is the place for you.

What Youll Do

• SecOps Strategy & Roadmap: Define own and execute a multi-year roadmap for Pantheons security operations capability covering detection engineering incident response threat intelligence exposure management and abuse prevention. Translate security risk into prioritised engineering investments.
• Architecture & Platform Ownership: Lead the architecture of Pantheons SecOps toolchain (SIEM SOAR EDR/XDR cloud security posture identity monitoring). Evaluate select and integrate security platforms with a focus on long-term scalability and operational efficiency.
• Threat Detection at Scale: Drive the detection engineering programme building a library of high-fidelity low-noise detections mapped to MITRE ATT&CK tuned across cloud endpoint and identity surfaces. Establish the methodology and standards the team operates against.
• Incident Response Leadership: Own the incident response programme end-to-end: playbooks runbooks severity frameworks post-incident reviews and continuous improvement cycles. Lead response for the most complex and critical incidents; serve as technical escalation path for the team.
• Threat Intelligence Programme: Build and operate a structured threat intelligence capability ingesting contextualising and operationalising intelligence from internal telemetry commercial feeds ISACs and open-source sources to inform detection and response priorities.
• Automation & Engineering Excellence: Architect and deliver scalable automation across alert triage enrichment investigation and response using SOAR APIs and scripting. Raise the engineering bar for how SecOps builds and maintains its tooling.
• EU Regulatory & Compliance Leadership: Serve as the SecOps subject matter expert for GDPR NIS2 and relevant EU and Irish regulatory obligations. Partner with GRC and Legal to ensure operational controls satisfy audit regulatory and contractual requirements including SOC 2 PCI DSS and NIST CSF.
• Vulnerability & Exposure Management: Define the programme strategy for vulnerability triage prioritisation and remediation SLAs in partnership with Engineering and Infrastructure. Drive down mean time to remediation through automation and clear ownership models.
• Abuse & Fraud Prevention: Own the technical strategy for abuse monitoring credential attacks account takeover platform misuse designing controls that scale with Pantheons customer growth.
• Business Resilience: Lead SecOps participation in business continuity and disaster recovery planning. Design and run tabletop exercises red team collaboration and resilience testing programmes.
• Executive Communication: Produce programme-level metrics risk narratives and strategic briefings for senior leadership and the board. Translate operational data into business risk language.
• Engineering Enablement & Mentorship: Set the technical standard for SecOps practices across Pantheon. Mentor senior and mid-level engineers run security training programmes and embed security thinking in engineering teams through pairing review and design consultation.

What You Bring to the Table

• 10 years of experience in information security with 7 years focused on security operations spanning detection engineering incident response threat hunting or SecOps programme leadership.
• Deep expertise in architecting and operating enterprise-grade SIEM and SOAR platforms at scale (e.g. Chronicle Splunk Elastic SIEM Palo Alto XSOAR Tines).
• Strong hands-on background in cloud-native security across GCP and/or AWS including logging pipelines cloud security posture management and IAM monitoring.
• Expert-level knowledge of attack techniques and threat actor tradecraft (MITRE ATT&CK MITRE D3FEND) and the ability to translate that into detection logic and response procedures.
• Demonstrated experience leading major incident response including managing stakeholders running cross-functional war rooms and driving post-incident improvement.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python Bash or equivalent) applied to security engineering problems not just tooling configuration.
• Experience owning or materially contributing to EU regulatory compliance requirements (GDPR NIS2) from an operational security perspective.
• Track record of influencing technical direction beyond your immediate team through design reviews architecture documents or cross-functional programme leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical risk clearly to both engineering audiences and executive leadership.

Preferred Experience

• Holding one or more recognized security certifications: CISSP CISM GIAC (GCIA GCED GREM GDAT) OSCP or a cloud security specialty certification (GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer AWS Security Specialty).
• Experience building or scaling a detection engineering programme from the ground up including establishing detection coverage metrics and a continuous improvement cadence.
• Hands-on with threat intelligence platforms (e.g. Recorded Future Mandiant Advantage) and structured intelligence lifecycle management.
• Background in abuse monitoring phishing detection and takedown coordination with registrars hosting providers and law enforcement.
• Exposure to bug bounty programme operations and red team/purple team collaboration to validate detection coverage.
• Experience managing security vendor relationships running RFPs and making build-vs-buy decisions for operational tooling.
• Prior experience working within the Irish or EU regulatory environment familiarity with the Data Protection Commission (DPC) NIS2 obligations for essential/important entities or ENISA guidance is a plus.

Working At Pantheon From Ireland

This role is based in Ireland and can be performed remotely within the country. Pantheon has a distributed engineering culture youll collaborate primarily with teams in North America and Europe which means some scheduling flexibility is expected for cross-timezone standups and incident response. Pantheon complies with all applicable Irish employment law including statutory leave entitlements and compensation is benchmarked to the Irish market.