Security Operations Engineer

Security Operations Engineer

Location: Dublin
Type: Full-Time
Salary: €75,000 – €90,000

A large, globally distributed organisation operating across regulated, safety-critical and R&D-driven environments is expanding its security operations capability. The team is adding an experienced engineer to support and evolve identity, privileged access, and encryption services that underpin both corporate systems and sensitive operational platforms.

The environment spans cloud, on-prem, and SaaS, with identity services supporting thousands of users, applications, and automated workloads worldwide.

The Role

You’ll take ownership of the operational health of core IAM, PAM, and cryptographic services. The role blends deep technical troubleshooting with service ownership, working closely with platform, infrastructure, and security engineering teams to ensure access services remain stable, auditable, and resilient.

This is a hands-on role with real influence over how identity platforms are operated, secured, and improved over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Own operational support for IAM, PAM, and certificate management platforms

• Lead investigation and resolution of complex identity and access incidents

• Monitor platform health, performance, and security posture across environments

• Manage patching, upgrades, and lifecycle activities for identity services

• Troubleshoot authentication failures, credential misuse, and certificate-related issues

• Drive root cause analysis and long-term remediation for recurring incidents

• Maintain and improve runbooks, procedures, and operational documentation

• Support audit, risk, and compliance activities tied to access controls and encryption

• Partner with engineering teams on platform improvements and automation

• Act as an escalation point for junior engineers and complex incidents

• Participate in a structured on-call rotation supporting 24/7 operational services

Skills & Experience

• 4–7 years’ experience in security operations, IAM, or security platform engineering

• Strong hands-on experience with privileged access and identity platforms

• Solid understanding of PKI, certificates, encryption, and key management

• Experience operating enterprise-scale identity services in hybrid environments

• Strong troubleshooting skills across authentication, authorization, and cryptographic systems

• Ability to script or automate operational tasks (PowerShell, Python, etc.)

• Familiarity with ITIL-style incident, change, and problem management

• Working knowledge of cloud identity and security controls (AWS and/or Azure)

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