Security Operations Engineer
ebay · Austin · United States · On-site
Pay: USD 80,800 – 143,600 a year
Posted Sep 28, 2026
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About the role: This role is based in our Austin, TX and requieres you go into the office 3 days a week.
eBay is searching for a CSIRT Operations Engineer to join our highly visible Cyber Security Incident Response Team that provides Security Operations Center (SOC) support, cyber analysis, scripting/automation, and a 24x7x365 support staff.
Within CSIRT you will build solutions to identify and mitigate security threats and work collaboratively to solve complex problems in a heterogeneous environment. Your contributions will help defend eBay's critical information assets.
In this role you will work with various security methodologies and processes, so advanced knowledge of TCP/IP protocols, AI tooling and analysis, and experience providing analysis and trending of security log data from a large number of heterogeneous security devices will help you succeed in this role.
As a Security Operations Engineer you will work with the following and demonstrate expert knowledge in at least two (2) or more of the following areas:
Vulnerability Assessment and Pen Testing, Intrusion Prevention and Detection, Access Control and Authorization, Policy Enforcement, Application Security, Protocol Analysis, cloud monitoring,Firewall Management, Encryption, Web-filtering, Advanced Threat Protection, Email Security, Digital Forensics, Monitoring and Detection, Cyber Intelligence Analysis.
Core Job Functions Include:
Investigations – Investigating computer and information security incidents to determine extent of compromise to information and automated information systems
Escalations – Responding to escalated notable events from security tooling to develop/execute security controls, Defense /countermeasures to prevent internal or external attacks or attempts to infiltrate company email, data, e-commerce and web-based systems.
Research – Researching attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems security and designs countermeasures.
Education - maintaining proficiency in tools, techniques, countermeasures, and trends in computer network vulnerabilities, data hiding and network security and encryption.
Communications – Provides information and updates to shift leads, creates pass-downs for next shift, work closely with supporting teams, provid…