Senior Information Security Engineer

Overview

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Purpose

The Senior Information Security Engineer is a senior technical and leadership role within IFS’s global Security Operations Center (SOC), responsible for driving advanced threat detection, deep-dive investigation and major cyber incident response across a fast-growing, global SaaS business. This role combines hands-on operational excellence with a mandate to mature the SOC itself – leading capability-building and transformation initiatives that scale detection engineering, automation and analyst tooling in step with IFS’s growth. The Senior Information Security Engineer acts as the senior escalation point for high-priority incidents, mentors and uplifts Tier 1/2 analysts, and brings a genuinely curious, investigative mindset to uncovering and closing gaps in the organization’s defensive posture.

Summary

IFS is seeking an experienced and highly curious Senior Information Security Engineer to strengthen its global Security Operations Center. Reporting to the SOC Manager, this role is central to detecting, investigating and responding to advanced threats across a fast-scaling, global SaaS estate, while also leading the ongoing transformation and maturity uplift of the SOC function itself.

We are looking for someone who has thrived in a fast-growth organization and is comfortable building process and capability from a lower level of maturity, and confident designing the detection engineering, automation and reporting foundations that a scaling security function needs. You will be very familiar with responding to cyber incidents and will experience leading major cyber incident responses, bringing the calm, structured leadership that high-pressure investigations demand.

This position suits a technically strong, and curious security professional who enjoys digging beneath the alert to understand root cause, who takes ownership of SOC transformation initiatives, and who can mentor and elevate the analysts around them.

Key Responsibilities

• Major Incident Response & Leadership: Lead and coordinate the end-to-end response to high-priority and major cyber incidents – acting as senior technical authority and calm decision-maker under pressure, from triage through containment, eradication and post-incident review.
• Deep-Dive Investigation & Threat Validation: Perform advanced forensic analysis, malware and log investigation, and root-cause assessment, applying a naturally curious, hypothesis-driven approach to uncover threats others might miss.
• SOC Capability Development & Transformation: Design, lead and deliver SOC maturity and transformation initiatives – from detection engineering and use-case development to workflow automation, tooling consolidation and process redesign – drawing on proven experience building SOC capability within a fast-growth organization.
• Threat Detection Engineering: Build, tune and continuously improve SIEM detection logic, alerting and correlation rules (preferably Microsoft Sentinel) to reduce false positives and improve signal quality.
• Proactive Threat Hunting: Conduct intelligence-led threat hunts using MITRE ATT&CK and emerging TTPs, iden