Security Operations Center Engineer

🏢 Mercury Insurance · all 33 jobs
📍 United States
💰 USD 83,670 - 161,815 / annual
📅 Posted Sep 17, 2026 · via Himalayas
🏷 Security Operations Center, Cybersecurity Engineering, Soc Engineer, Infosec, Security Analyst, Security Operations Engineer +2 more
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Overview

Join an amazing team that is consistently recognized for our achievements and culture, including our most recent Forbes award of being one of America's Best Midsize Employers for 2026!
Position Summary:

The primary job function of the Security Operations Center Engineer is to identify, investigate, and escalate alerts and events to safeguard sensitive information from unauthorized access or breaches of malicious and potentially damaging intent in a 7x24x365 environment. Manages and configures security monitoring tools. Assess security systems and measures for weaknesses and possible improvements. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the IT security industry including awareness of new or revised security solutions. Must be ethical, curious, and detail oriented.

Will also be responsible for definition of security process road maps and knowledge articles (KB), change management validations, user/system impacted security incident management and resolutions; Administration of Security Operations Center owned tools including scripting, customizations, report building, alert modifications, automations and maintenance; Minimize risk and exposure to system security and business interruptions of company's infrastructure; actively participate in disaster recovery and BCP events. Some scripting, coding and/or technical certificates may be needed to achieve certain job functions, so willingness to expand technical attributes will be expected.
Geo-Salary Information

An in-person interview may be required during the hiring process

State specific pay scales for this role are as follows:

$83,670 to $161,815 (NJ, NY, WA, HI, AK, MD, CT, RI, MA)

$76,064 to $147,104 (NV, OR, AZ, CO, WY, TX, ND, MN, MO, IL, WI, FL, GA, MI, OH, VA, PA, DE, VT, NH, ME)

$68,457 to $132,394 (UT, ID, MT, NM, SD, NE, KS, OK, IA, AR, LA, MS, AL, TN, KY, IN, SC, NC, WV)

In CA: Typical hiring range is $110,468 to $153,428

The expected base salary for this position will vary depending on a number of factors, including relevant experience, skills and location.
Responsibilities
Essential Job Functions:

- Monitor security tools & systems: Analyze logs, alerts, and data for suspicious activity.

- Investigate potential threats: Determine if alerts are real incidents and identify vulnerabilities.

- Supervise all Incident/Security issues, including preliminary triage, troubleshooting and remediation.

- Gather evidence: Collect and analyze evidence to understand incident scope and impact.

- Contain the threat and remediate vulnerabilities: Quickly contain the incident to minimize damage, and implement patching, configuration changes, or other measures to address the exploited vulnerabilities.

- Recover from the incident and report to management: Assist in restoring affected systems and data to their normal state, and keep management informed about security incidents and response efforts.

- Documentation: Document findings for future reference and improvement, including process roadmaps, change management validations, and user/system impacted incident management and resolutions.

- Administer SOC/NOC tools: Manage and administer all SOC/NOC Operations center owned tools, including scripting, customizations, report building, alert modifications, automations, and maintenance.

- Minimize risk and exposure to system security and business interruptions of the company's infrastructure.

- Participate in disaster recovery and BCP events: Actively participate in disaster recovery and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) events.e

Qualifications
Education:
Minimum:
- BS degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, related field; and/or equivalent combination of education or work experience

Preferred:

- GIAC Security Essentials Certification

- GIAC Security Leadership Certification

- ISACA Certified Information Security Manager

- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security

- (ISC)2 SCCP

- (ISC)2 CISSP

- (ISC)2 ISSAP

- CCSK4

Experience:
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