Security Operations Engineer (f/m/d)
1&1 Mail & Media Applications SE | IT Security | Karlsruhe | Permanent | Full-time | Experienced professionals | Reference ID: 265
- Your tasks
Are you passionate about cybersecurity and blue team topics like threat hunting, anomaly detection, and incident response? Do you thrive in an agile environment and want to contribute to a leading digital company? Join us as a Security Operations Engineer and help secure our products: WEB.DE, GMX, and mail.com! In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our operational security:
- Innovate and Enhance: Design and continuously improve processes and tools in key areas such as SIEM, cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, vulnerability management, and digital forensics – helping us maintain a real-time understanding of our threat landscape.
- Lead Incident Response: Triage security alerts and take the lead as Incident Manager / Commander during confirmed incidents, coordinating cross-functional teams under pressure.
- Automate Workflows: Automate detection and response workflows, leveraging established platforms like SIEM or EDR/XDR, as well as your own custom scripts and playbooks.
- Technical Analysis: Perform in-depth technical analyses, including log analysis and digital forensics.
- 24/7 Coverage: Participate in our on-call rotation, ensuring 24/7 security coverage when needed.
Our benefits
Lived corporate culture
Transparency, open communication and short decision-making processes
Wide range of further training
E-learning, seminars, conferences and mentoring
Renowned TEC-Campus
Conferences, lecture series, courses, open source projects, community meetings, user groups
Active health care
Sports and fitness classes, lectures, discounts at fitness and health centers, fresh fruit and drinks for free
Mobility
Generous subsidy for job bike leasing and the job ticket
Flexible working models
Home office, mobile office, flexible working hours, trust-based working time arrangements
Financial benefits
Company pension scheme, discounts on our products and various leisure activities
Legendary events
Summer and winter parties, additional workshops and team events
- Your profile
Do you have a technical degree or equivalent education, and a passion for cybersecurity? Have you already gained hands-on experience in this field? Then we’re looking forward to your application!
- Expertise: Strong knowledge of common security operations tools and processes—such as SIEM, cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability management, or forensic tools—and staying current with best practices and standards (e.g., NIST, FIRST, MITRE ATT&CK). Relevant certifications (e.g., OSCP, GCIA, GCIH) are a plus, but not required.
- Technical Foundation: Solid technical foundation with deep understanding of networks, communication protocols, operating systems, and web-based distributed architectures.
- Continuous Learning: Commitment to continuous learning and regularly sharpening your skills in IT infrastructure and security. Familiarity with modern practices such as DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Detection as Code, or Infrastructure as Code.
- Hands-On Skills: Comfortable writing scripts or code in at least one language (solid Python knowledge is a plus) using Git-based workflows.
- Team Player: Excellent communication skills (English level at least C1) and the ability to guide and align stakeholders.
- Our benefits in detail
- Our corporate culture: No dress code, flat hierarchies, open and transparent communication
- Individual development opportunities: diverse training courses, e-learning and internal communities, language courses, mentoring
- Events: Slack Days, open source projects, meet-ups
- Relocation service: support with the relocation to Germany
- Benefits and additional services: company pension scheme, capital-forming benefits, discounts on own products, job ticket, bike leasing, corporate benefits portal
- Attractive working conditions: 30 days holiday, hybrid working, full-time and part-time arrangements, free choice between Linux, Mac or Windows
- Social: team events, summer and winter parties, family and care service, sports and fitness programmes, subsidised canteen, free fruit and drinks, health courses
- Topics that are also important to us: Sustainability, diversity and our values and leadership principles - find out more on our website mail-and-media.com
We are brand. With GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com and over 42 million active users, we are the leading email and communication platform in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
We are future. Our services and apps simplify digital life from cloud storage to news and ID management.
You are at home. Your digital passion finds a professional home with us. Your strength makes us stronger, your expertise complements our ideas, your success becomes visible. Together we shape the digital future.
Diversity enriches. Different cultures, nationalities, genders, age groups, sexual orientations and religions as well as people with disabilities - we desire diversity and encourage it. Because only teams that reflect all facets of society offer the best framework conditions for creativity and make a company productive and distinctive. We value diversity and welcome all applications.
Apply now
We look forward to receiving your application, including your salary expectations and the reference number given above. Please use our online application form. If you have any questions about the position or the application process, please send us an email.
1&1 Mail & Media Applications SE
Recruiting & Candidate Management
Brauerstraße 48
D-76135 Karlsruhe
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