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Senior Security Operations Engineer

Samsara· IT Security
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Hybrid (UK)Full-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Security Operations Engineer located in the United Kingdom who will monitor and respond to security events, lead security incidents as Incident Commander, and conduct digital forensic investigations, with opportunities to create runbooks, automate workflows, and improve security processes.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor security events and provide technical analysis on alerts
  • Lead information security incidents and employee insider investigations by developing the incident response strategy, lead the execution through incident closure, while providing incident updates to key stakeholders throughout the incident
  • Deliver security guidance clearly and concisely for incident response and insider threat initiatives
  • Coordinate the building of services, capabilities, integrations, and implementations of technologies to support security operations, incident response, and insider threat
  • Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
  • Participate in our on-call rota covering weekends

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Security Incident Response
  • Ability to communicate investigative findings and strategies to technical staff, executive leadership, and legal
  • Ability to build scripts or tools to support Samsara’s investigation processes, with proficiency in Python
  • Mentor and train security operation engineers on data collection, analysis, and reporting technical analysis
  • Practical experience acting as a lead during security incident response, including monitoring and triaging alerts, and coordinating across teams
  • Understanding of analysis and forensics techniques on macOS, Windows, and Linux
  • Experience utilizing SIEM tools to perform log reviews
  • Experience in cloud architecture and security (AWS, GCP) and cloud-based services
  • Participation in an on-call rotation, with potential to work outside standard business hours for high-severity incidents
  • Hours aligned to UK time as part of EMEA operations

Skills

Required:Security Incident ResponsePython scriptingForensics techniquesSIEMCloud securityStakeholder communicationMentorship

Benefits

  • Flexible, employee-led remote model
  • professional development stipend
  • comprehensive health and parental leave plans
  • equity (for eligible roles) and above-market total compensation structure (base salary, bonus/variable pay)
Last updated Oct 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Samsara

Samsara | The Connected Operations Platform

Samsara's connected operations platform helps 20,000+ operations improve safety, cut costs, and run smarter — built with operators.

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