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Senior Cybersecurity Operations Engineer - AI

Bread Financial
P1 - Easton Campus Building A, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Jun 2026
💰 $221,800/yr($97,900/yr$221,800/yr)

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Job Summary

The Senior Cybersecurity Operations Engineer - AI serves as a senior technical leader within the Cybersecurity Operations Center, focused on advancing detection engineering, automated response, and threat intelligence capabilities to defend critical information assets. This role is responsible for designing, developing, and continuously improving high-fidelity detections across enterprise telemetry, as well as engineering automated response workflows that reduce response times and operational burden.

Building on a strong foundation in security engineering, this individual will champion modern CSOC practices including detection-as-code, threat-informed defense, and the integration of AI and agentic workflows to optimize alert triage, enrichment, and incident response. The Sr. Engineer partners closely with cross-functional teams across infrastructure, cloud, identity, and application domains to ensure visibility, coverage, and coordinated response to evolving threats.

As a subject matter expert, this role drives innovation in CSOC operations, translates threat intelligence into actionable detections and hunts, and continuously measures and improves detection effectiveness. The position also serves as a mentor to junior engineers and analysts, fostering technical growth and promoting scalable, repeatable security operations processes..


 

Essential Job Functions 

  • Process and Project Management: Own the design and the implementation of key IT projects and initiatives as they pertain to the organization's long-term security strategy. Identify areas of improvement where processes do not currently exist and drive the development and delivery of new processes to address these gaps.  Ability to manage ambiguity and deliver quality results with minimal supervision in coordinating projects and other deliverables. Willingness to escalate identified issues as necessary and the ability to identify when to partner with leadership to resolve issues, risks or obstacles. Builds consensus for delivering results while finding common ground for collaboration and partnership. 

  • Documentation, Metrics and Presentations: Understand the various tools and technologies commonly associated with Information Security. Lead the creation of and the maintenance of relevant documentation including the ability to deliver run books, project updates, process documentation, architecture and technical requirements and presentations. Develop and deliver Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) through the understanding of the tools and deliverables by helping to develop, maintain and mature the associated reporting structure. Ability to produce meaningful and actionable metrics through data analysis. Conduct data analysis exercises using Excel Pivot Tables, database queries, and other data driven analysis tools.  Produces presentations at various levels of abstraction dependent on intended audience using Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Visio, or equivalent tools. 

  • Leadership and Development: Ability to work in a team-fostered, fast-paced, multi-threaded environment. Serve as the subject matter expert in various technical Information Security disciplines and mentoring junior staff.  Demonstrate self-learning in gaining knowledge of new technical developments and ensure they are shared appropriately and applied within the department. Comprehensive understanding of the InfoSec team’s strategy and vision and actively works as a change agent to support these initiatives both within the InfoSec team and the broader organization.  Identifies and understands drivers for change and will act as an individual champion or partner with leadership to deliver those changes. Effectively partners with peers within the department to include them in key projects, risks or issues.  Intermediate to expert interpersonal, neg

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