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Principal Security Engineer

Summary

Lead security operations for AI data centers, including incident response, threat hunting, and infrastructure hardening across the Americas.

You will lead hands-on security operations for AI data centers across the Americas. You will respond to critical incidents, develop detections and threat-hunting campaigns, harden hosts and networks, manage vulnerabilities and privileged access, and coordinate customer, legal, and headquarters incident communications.

Responsibilities

  • Lead 24/7 alert triage, incident response, and root cause analysis for Americas AI data centers
  • Lead forensic investigation, containment, and recovery for high-severity security incidents
  • Build incident response playbooks and runbooks
  • Develop SIEM detection rules and threat-hunting campaigns
  • Implement detection-as-code practices, including version-controlled rules, CI/CD, testing, and coverage metrics
  • Assess pre-production security readiness and harden infrastructure
  • Track vulnerabilities and lead regional vulnerability response
  • Manage regional IAM and privileged access controls
  • Operate perimeter firewalls, IPS, WAF, DDoS mitigation, and network security controls
  • Respond to customer security tickets, abuse complaints, and incident notifications
  • Handle law-enforcement requests in coordination with Legal
  • Coordinate security handoffs and compliance evidence collection with Singapore headquarters

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 10+ years of hands-on information security experience
  • At least 5 years focused on cloud infrastructure, IaaS, or data center security operations
  • Incident Commander experience leading at least five P0/P1 security incidents
  • Knowledge of NIST SP 800-61
  • Expertise in Linux security, network protocols, TCP/IP, KVM/QEMU, and container and Kubernetes security
  • Experience with a SIEM platform and writing detection rules
  • SIGMA rule format knowledge
  • Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK Cloud Matrix and Container Matrix
  • Python and Shell programming skills
  • Familiarity with eBPF, Tetragon, Falco, and Cilium
  • Experience with Terraform or Ansible and Git workflows
  • GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, OSCP, CISSP, or CCSP certification
  • Professional fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese
  • Willingness to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and cross-time-zone coordination

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