Senior Security Engineer
Cision
| Company | Cision |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | HU |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Senior |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 26 May 2026 |
| Last verified | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Source | The employer's own careers page (company_site) |
Description
Cision is a global leader in PR, marketing, and social media management technology. This role involves monitoring, investigating, and responding to security activity across cloud, identity, endpoint, and Linux-based environments. The position requires hands-on technical ability, strong scripting skills, and practical experience with AWS and cloud security operations.
What You'll Do
• Monitor and investigate security alerts across cloud, identity, endpoint, and network environments
• Review logs and activity from AWS, GCP, Active Directory, Linux systems, 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
• Investigate authentication activity, user behavior, privilege changes, and potential account compromise
• Assist with security reviews including IAM, storage exposure, compute workloads, and network configurations
• Be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support
What You Need
• 3-5 years of experience in security operations, incident response, systems administration, cloud operations, or similar technical role
• Strong scripting ability, preferably with Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows systems, command line usage, permissions, processes, and logs
• Experience with cloud security concepts, services, logs, and IAM
• Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Chronicle, Sentinel, or similar tools
• Basic to intermediate understanding of Active Directory
• Ability to read and interpret logs from cloud platforms, operating systems, and security tools
• Understanding of common security concepts such as phishing, credential compromise, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and exposed services
• Hands-on experience using scripts to solve operational or security problems
• Comfortable working in both cloud and Linux command-line environments
Nice to Have
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform security, including IAM, Cloud Logging, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPCs, and service accounts
• Exposure to Kubernetes, containers, or cloud-native workloads
• Experience creating automation for security monitoring or response
25 vacation days and extra vacation days after age and after children, Cafeteria benefit via SZEP card, Medicover private health insurance for employees and their family members, 10% of your time to work on anything you like, reading groups, tech talks, flexible working and working from home, extensive people development program including access to Udemy