Security -Sr Security Operations Engineer

Security
-Sr Security Operations Engineer

Woodmen Life Home Office, 1700 Farnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Omaha, NE, USA

Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM

Security Operations Engineer / Sr.

Location:

Hybrid (Omaha, NE)

Reports To:

Manager Security Operations

PLEASE NOTE:

Woodmen Life will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

To be considered for this position, applicants must submit a resume that includes their full name, current residential address, email address, and phone number. Resumes that do not contain all required contact information will not be considered.

Why You'll Love This Role

Woodmen Life is seeking a Security Operations Engineer or Sr. Security Operations Engineer to help build and advance our modern cybersecurity operations program. This is an exciting opportunity for a security professional who enjoys solving complex challenges, investigating threats, developing automation, and leveraging emerging technologies such as AI to improve security outcomes.

In this role, you will play a critical part in protecting Woodmen Life's systems, applications, identities, and data. You'll work with modern security technologies, advanced detection platforms, security automation tools, AI-powered workflows, and Identity & Access Management solutions while helping strengthen the organization's overall security posture.

Whether hired at the Engineer or Senior Engineer level, you will have the opportunity to make a measurable impact through threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, security automation, and identity governance initiatives.

At Woodmen Life, you'll join a collaborative team environment where continuous learning, innovation, and professional growth are encouraged. This role offers multiple career paths within cybersecurity engineering, security operations, identity security, and automation engineering.

About the Team

The Security Operations team is part of the Risk Division and is responsible for monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to cybersecurity threats across the enterprise.

• Security automation and orchestration
• AI-assisted security operations
• Threat detection and response modernization
• Identity & Access Management modernization through Conductor One
• Access governance and lifecycle automation
• Vulnerability management improvement
• Security monitoring and response optimization

The Security Operations Engineer / Sr. Security Operations Engineer is responsible for proactively identifying and responding to cybersecurity threats, validating security controls, improving detection capabilities, and supporting the secure operation of enterprise systems.

This role combines threat hunting, security monitoring, incident response, security engineering, automation development, and identity security. The successful candidate will help design and implement automated workflows, develop security playbooks and runbooks, optimize detection capabilities, and partner with stakeholders across the organization to strengthen Woodmen Life's cybersecurity posture.

Candidates hired at the Senior Engineer level will also serve as technical leaders, leading complex investigations, mentoring team members, and driving strategic security initiatives.

• Investigate and respond to cybersecurity incidents across enterprise systems and environments.
• Perform triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident analysis activities.
• Conduct root cause analysis and document incident findings.
• Escalate and coordinate response efforts during critical security events.
• Continuously improve incident response procedures and operational readiness.
• Proactively hunt for emerging threats and suspicious activity.
• Develop, tune, and optimize detection rules and alerting capabilities.
• Analyze network, cloud, endpoint, application, and identity-related security events.
• Leverage threat intelligence and security frameworks to enhance detection effectiveness.
• Identify attack patterns and security gaps before they become incidents.

• Develop and maintain security automation workflows and orchestration processes.
• Build scripts and integrations using Python, Power Shell, or similar technologies.
• Design and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and response workflows.
• Leverage AI-powered tools, copilots, and agentic workflows to improve operational efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort through automation and intelligent process design.

• Support Identity Governance and Administration initiatives.
• Manage identity lifecycle processes including provisioning, deprovisioning, and access changes.
• Support access reviews, certifications, and governance activities.
• Implement and maintain least-privilege access controls.
• Partner with…