Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Security operations roles are increasingly central in SaaS businesses where reliability and trust are part of the product. This Senior Security Analyst position sits close to cloud-native delivery, with day-to-day work anchored in monitoring and triage across AWS services, microservices, endpoints, and a SIEM workflow in Sumo Logic. That combination signals a modern SaaS security posture that blends platform health, incident response, and continuous detection rather than perimeter-only controls.
For a long-term SaaS career, the role builds durable experience in operational security disciplines that recur across subscription software companies: alert quality, incident investigation, vulnerability management, and security reporting that leadership can act on. Exposure to secure configuration management and periodic technical reviews also helps connect tactical response work to broader risk reduction, a useful bridge for progressing toward security engineering or cloud security ownership.
This role tends to suit professionals who prefer structured investigative work, can stay methodical under a steady stream of alerts, and enjoy improving processes and tooling over time. It also fits someone comfortable collaborating across infrastructure and application contexts, where clear written communication and metrics matter as much as technical depth.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
This position is responsible for security incident triage and analysis. The analyst will monitor various security tools and security logs and respond to security alerts generated by those tools or noted within the security logs. The analyst would also assist in periodic security tasks such as vulnerability scanning and secure configuration management.
Responsibilities
- Continuously monitor and triage alerts in the Sumo Logic platform while monitoring the health of a variety of AWS/Scala-based microservices and endpoints.
- Apply inquisitive logical problem-solving techniques to IT Security incidents and risks,
- Ownership and management of security processes and tools required to deliver operational security services.
- Lead the vulnerability management program and help prioritize patch management.
- Effective analysis, articulation, and presentation of security reporting to leadership.
- Perform periodic technical security reviews for Corporate and Cloud Infrastructure.
- To implement security analytics, reporting and metrics programs and to support security incidents and analysis with your technical expertise.
- Assess overall cloud security posture. Redesign or evolve the posture as necessary to meet all the needs of a modernization of security within the organization.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent industry experience
- 5 + years of experience in hands-on Security Analyst/Engineer role. The majority of this should have been within a Cloud Environment.
- Experience with concepts and technologies in the following areas of security: Endpoint Security, Email Security, Network Security, Cloud Security, Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response.
Desirable Skills
- Experience architecting, deploying, and managing a suite of security management tools, including WAF, NGFW, IDS/IPS, SIEM, DDOS protection, Pen-testing, vulnerability management, and anti-malware.
- Direct experience implementing AWS cloud security services.
About Us
Sumo Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUMO) empowers the people who power modern, digital business. Through its SaaS analytics platform, Sumo Logic enables customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ helps practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into their cloud infrastructures. Customers around the world rely on Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across observability and security solutions for their cloud-native applications. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
