Staff Security Operations Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- A highly experienced SecOps engineer with a strong background in detection, response, and operational security
- Skilled at building and operating modern cloud security controls across AWS, GCP, or similar environments
- Comfortable working directly with engineers to embed operational security practices into their workflows
- Strong communicator who can explain threats and mitigations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excited about the intersection of AI and security, with ideas for how to safely harness AI while managing its risks
- Motivated by outcomes - not just solving incidents, but building resilient systems and reducing risk at scale
- 6+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or related fields, including at least 2 years in a staff or senior-level role
- Deep expertise with detection and response in cloud-native environments
- Strong knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar security frameworks
- Experience building and automating security tooling (SIEM, SOAR, custom scripts)
- Proven ability to lead or coordinate incident response across multiple teams
- Track record of influencing operational security culture and practices without direct authority
- Experience working with AI security - either in detection, incident response, or product security contexts
- Prior experience supporting enterprise customer audits or due diligence processes
- Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, or other modern infrastructure stacks
- Hands-on experience with threat hunting and detection engineering
What the job involves
- Are you a seasoned SecOps engineer who loves digging into logs, tuning detections, and staying one step ahead of attackers
- Have you ever written a Python script just to shave a few seconds off your IR workflow
- Maybe threat-hunted in your home lab on a Saturday morning for fun
- If so, we want to talk to you!
- As a senior member of Apollo’s Security Operations team, you’ll bring deep technical expertise and a collaborative mindset to help us protect and scale our infrastructure securely
- This is a high-impact opportunity to shape how SecOps evolves - from detection engineering and incident response, to compliance, automation, and AI security
- You’ll work directly with teams across Apollo to reduce risk, meet customer expectations, and ensure that security operations remain a foundation of trust as we scale
- Advance Apollo’s detection and response strategy in partnership with engineering and IT leadership
- Implement and maintain adherence to SOC 2 and other cloud security frameworks
- Handle escalations from Sales and Customer Success, including security questionnaires and customer audits
- Build and tune monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to improve visibility while reducing noise
- Drive automation of SecOps workflows to speed up investigation and response
- Guide secure adoption of AI across Apollo - from internal use by engineers to AI-powered product features
- Participate in our on-call rotation (we keep this lightweight and reasonable)
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Work from home opportunities
- Virtual “coffee chats” and team lunches, and an AV setup specifically tailored for remote experience
- Everyone-in-town weeks, where we fly all of our Apollo employees to San Francisco for an action packed week of work and play
About Apollo
Apollo was launched in 2009 to provide clients and brokers with an agile and entrepreneurial insurance partner. The Apollo name recognised the success of one of its founding investors, Neil Armstrong, who in 1969 was the first person to walk on the moon.
We are an innovative, integrated insurance group offering insurance products across property, casualty, marine, energy and transportation, specialty, reinsurance, and Smart Follow teams via Syndicate 1969. Through Syndicate 1971, ibott, we offer digital and embedded risk programmes, whilst our Strategic Partner Syndicates business supports new Lloyd’s entrants from initial concept to full managing agency services.
What makes us different? Our wide range of products put us in a unique position where our entrepreneurial approach and service excellence delivers creative and flexible solutions for our clients and partners all in one place as we continue our exciting growth journey. Apollo is a great place to work with an inclusive culture where everyone is welcome, included, and can thrive. Our workplace is collaborative, supportive and innovative, and we strive to produce the best results possible, together. Opportunities exist to develop our employees’ key strengths and we are supported in ways that matter to each individual. In addition to generous employee benefits, flexible working is fully embraced and utilised. We understand that no one colleague is the same and that each of us has our own responsibilities and roles outside of our working life.
“We attract and retain the highest quality talent by developing a team atmosphere where opportunity exists for our employees and partners.” David Ibeson, Group CEO
Staff Security Operations Engineer
Top Benefits
About the role
Who you are
- A highly experienced SecOps engineer with a strong background in detection, response, and operational security
- Skilled at building and operating modern cloud security controls across AWS, GCP, or similar environments
- Comfortable working directly with engineers to embed operational security practices into their workflows
- Strong communicator who can explain threats and mitigations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excited about the intersection of AI and security, with ideas for how to safely harness AI while managing its risks
- Motivated by outcomes - not just solving incidents, but building resilient systems and reducing risk at scale
- 6+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or related fields, including at least 2 years in a staff or senior-level role
- Deep expertise with detection and response in cloud-native environments
- Strong knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar security frameworks
- Experience building and automating security tooling (SIEM, SOAR, custom scripts)
- Proven ability to lead or coordinate incident response across multiple teams
- Track record of influencing operational security culture and practices without direct authority
- Experience working with AI security - either in detection, incident response, or product security contexts
- Prior experience supporting enterprise customer audits or due diligence processes
- Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, or other modern infrastructure stacks
- Hands-on experience with threat hunting and detection engineering
What the job involves
- Are you a seasoned SecOps engineer who loves digging into logs, tuning detections, and staying one step ahead of attackers
- Have you ever written a Python script just to shave a few seconds off your IR workflow
- Maybe threat-hunted in your home lab on a Saturday morning for fun
- If so, we want to talk to you!
- As a senior member of Apollo’s Security Operations team, you’ll bring deep technical expertise and a collaborative mindset to help us protect and scale our infrastructure securely
- This is a high-impact opportunity to shape how SecOps evolves - from detection engineering and incident response, to compliance, automation, and AI security
- You’ll work directly with teams across Apollo to reduce risk, meet customer expectations, and ensure that security operations remain a foundation of trust as we scale
- Advance Apollo’s detection and response strategy in partnership with engineering and IT leadership
- Implement and maintain adherence to SOC 2 and other cloud security frameworks
- Handle escalations from Sales and Customer Success, including security questionnaires and customer audits
- Build and tune monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to improve visibility while reducing noise
- Drive automation of SecOps workflows to speed up investigation and response
- Guide secure adoption of AI across Apollo - from internal use by engineers to AI-powered product features
- Participate in our on-call rotation (we keep this lightweight and reasonable)
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Work from home opportunities
- Virtual “coffee chats” and team lunches, and an AV setup specifically tailored for remote experience
- Everyone-in-town weeks, where we fly all of our Apollo employees to San Francisco for an action packed week of work and play
About Apollo
Apollo was launched in 2009 to provide clients and brokers with an agile and entrepreneurial insurance partner. The Apollo name recognised the success of one of its founding investors, Neil Armstrong, who in 1969 was the first person to walk on the moon.
We are an innovative, integrated insurance group offering insurance products across property, casualty, marine, energy and transportation, specialty, reinsurance, and Smart Follow teams via Syndicate 1969. Through Syndicate 1971, ibott, we offer digital and embedded risk programmes, whilst our Strategic Partner Syndicates business supports new Lloyd’s entrants from initial concept to full managing agency services.
What makes us different? Our wide range of products put us in a unique position where our entrepreneurial approach and service excellence delivers creative and flexible solutions for our clients and partners all in one place as we continue our exciting growth journey. Apollo is a great place to work with an inclusive culture where everyone is welcome, included, and can thrive. Our workplace is collaborative, supportive and innovative, and we strive to produce the best results possible, together. Opportunities exist to develop our employees’ key strengths and we are supported in ways that matter to each individual. In addition to generous employee benefits, flexible working is fully embraced and utilised. We understand that no one colleague is the same and that each of us has our own responsibilities and roles outside of our working life.
“We attract and retain the highest quality talent by developing a team atmosphere where opportunity exists for our employees and partners.” David Ibeson, Group CEO