Sr Security Engineer _ Proofpoint-6
Realign Llc
Quincy, United States of America
6 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 140KJob location
Quincy, United States of America
Tech stack
Computer Security
DevOps
Regular Expressions
Runbook
Data Classification
Job description
- Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Proofpoint platform, providing technical leadership and guidance to security teams.
- Lead the deployment and configuration of Proofpoint capabilities, including OCR, EDM, IDM, policy creation, and report development.
- Design, implement, and optimize advanced DLP policies and detection logic aligned to organizational risk and compliance needs.
- Develop, maintain, and improve SOPs, operational workflows, triage playbooks, and incident remediation processes.
- Oversee and perform complex triage, root-cause analysis, and incident remediation, ensuring timely resolution and proper documentation.
- Continuously evaluate platform performance, drive tuning cycles, and recommend enhancements to improve accuracy and reduce false positives.
- Act as the escalation point for SOC, Compliance, and Legal teams on all Proofpoint-related incidents and platform-related questions.
Requirements
- Strong SME-level experience on the Proofpoint platform, with deep hands-on expertise in OCR, EDM, IDM, policy engineering, and reporting.
- Demonstrated success in deploying and operationalizing Proofpoint solutions in large, complex enterprise environments.
- Proven experience creating SOPs, triage processes, runbooks, and incident handling frameworks for DLP operations.
- Advanced understanding of DLP methodologies, content inspection techniques, regex, fingerprinting, and data classification.
- Solid background in incident response, including triage, investigation, containment, user communication, and remediation.
- Ability to work collaboratively with Security Operations, Privacy, Compliance, HR, and Legal during investigations and policy lifecycle management.
- Strong documentation skills and the ability to articulate technical details to leadership and non-technical stakeholders.