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title: 'Senior Security Engineer at Brandwatch'
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# Senior Security Engineer at Brandwatch

- **Company:** Brandwatch
- **Location:** Hungary / Sofia, Bulgaria
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/brandwatch/jobs/4994458101

## Job description

At Cision, we believe in empowering every individual to make an impact. Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you'll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate.

Join us in shaping the future of communication and building authentic connections that matter. Whether you're solving complex problems or driving bold innovations, your growth is our success, and together, we’ll create the conversations of tomorrow.

Empower your impact at Cision. Be seen, be understood, be you.

We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to help monitor, investigate, and respond to security activity across cloud, identity, endpoint, and Linux-based environments. This role requires hands-on technical ability, strong scripting skills, and practical experience working with AWS, with GCP experience preferred.

## What You'll Do

- Monitor and investigate security alerts across cloud, identity, endpoint, and network environments.
- Review logs and activity from AWS, GCP, Active Directory, Linux systems, Windows systems, and security tools.
- Support incident response by gathering evidence, validating suspicious activity, and documenting findings.
- Write scripts to automate repetitive security tasks, log analysis, reporting, or enrichment.
- Assist with security reviews, including IAM, storage exposure, compute workloads, and network configurations.
- Investigate authentication activity, user behavior, privilege changes, and potential account compromise.
- Work with internal teams to understand systems, identify risks, and support remediation, compliance and audit activities.
- Be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support.

## What You'll Bring

- Experience with cloud security concepts, services, logs, and IAM.
- Strong scripting ability, preferably with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Chronicle, Sentinel, or similar tools.
- Working knowledge of Linux and Windows systems, command line usage, permissions, processes, and logs.
- Basic to intermediate understanding of Active Directory, including users, groups, authentication, and privilege changes.
- Ability to read and interpret logs from cloud platforms, operating systems, and security tools.
- Understanding of common security concepts such as phishing, credential compromise, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and exposed services.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.

## Preferred Skills

- Experience with Google Cloud Platform security, including IAM, Cloud Logging, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPCs, and service accounts.
- Exposure to Kubernetes, containers, or cloud-native workloads.
- Experience creating automation for security monitoring or response.
- Experience with Github/Gitlab

## Minimum Qualifications

- 3-5 years of experience in security operations, incident response, systems administration, cloud operations, or a similar technical role.
- Hands-on experience using scripts to solve operational or security problems.
- Comfortable working in both cloud and Linux command-line environments.

Please note:

- Candidates must be available for after-hours incident response when urgent security events require investigation or support.
- The interview process will include a hands-on practical exercise conducted through screen sharing, where candidates will be asked to demonstrate relevant technical skills.

As a global leader in PR, marketing and social media management technology and intelligence, Cision helps brands and organizations to identify, connect and engage with customers and stakeholders to drive business results. [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/), a network of over 1.1 billion influencers, in-depth monitoring, analytics and its [Brandwatch](https://www.brandwatch.com/) and [Falcon.io](https://www.falcon.io/) social media platforms headline a premier suite of solutions. Cision has offices in 24 countries throughout the Americas, EMEA and APAC. For more information about Cision's award-winning solutions, including its next-gen Cision Communications Cloud®, visit [www.cision.com](https://www.cision.com/) and follow @Cision on Twitter.

Cision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the [CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge](https://www.ceoaction.com/ceos/?Page=1&CompanyLetters=C&Sort=Alphabetical) and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by [DiversityJobs.com](https://diversityjobs.com/).

Cision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses.

Cision is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Cision will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact hr.support@cision.com

Please review our [Global Candidate Data Privacy Statement](https://www.cision.com/careers/cision-candidate-privacy-notice/) to learn about Cision’s commitment to protecting personal data collected during the hiring process.

## About Brandwatch

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brandwatch is a digital consumer intelligence platform that helps businesses analyze and act on conversations from social media and the web.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Cision, acquired 2021)
- **Headquarters**: Brighton, England, United Kingdom [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/brandwatch)
- **Founded**: 2007 [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/brandwatch)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Consumer intelligence, social media management, influencer marketing, analytics
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprise marketing, communications, and insights teams
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Not explicitly stated in provided materials; the company emphasizes helping organizations “make better decisions” using social data [brandwatch.com](https://www.brandwatch.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Social Media Management**: Engage with audiences, schedule posts, and monitor conversations across social platforms (SaaS) [brandwatch.com](https://www.brandwatch.com/)
- **Consumer Intelligence**: AI-powered analytics that parse social and web data to surface insights about consumers, trends, and brand health (SaaS) [brandwatch.com](https://www.brandwatch.com/)
- **Influencer Marketing**: Identify, analyze, and manage influencer relationships (SaaS) [brandwatch.com](https://www.brandwatch.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total employees reported as 5,000 (likely includes Cision group) [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/brandwatch); revenue not disclosed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Owned by Cision (backed by Platinum Equity); official data partners include Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/brandwatch)
- **Growth Signals**: Integrated into Cision’s suite; continues to hire across multiple global offices (e.g., London, Sofia, Chicago, Singapore, Melbourne) [brandwatch.com](https://www.brandwatch.com/company/careers/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data scale & access**: Official firehose access to Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr, plus data from 100 million+ websites; historical archive of over 1 trillion conversations with 501 million new entries daily [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/brandwatch)
- **AI & query capabilities**: Combines natural language processing and powerful querying to filter and analyze massive datasets
- **Part of Cision ecosystem**: Access to broader media monitoring and PR tools

## Strategic Focus
- Continue to evolve AI-driven analytics and expand integrations within the Cision portfolio
- Strengthen real-time consumer insights for enterprises
- Grow global presence with hybrid/remote teams [brandwatch.com](https://www.brandwatch.com/company/careers/)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: Emphasizes authenticity, boldness, creativity, and inclusion [brandwatch.com](https://www.brandwatch.com/company/about/)
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Active D&I committee, gender pay analysis, Women in Technology channel, Pride committee, and Green committee [brandwatch.com](https://www.brandwatch.com/company/about/)
- **Work environment**: Flexible working, hybrid model (combination of remote and on-site); offices in Brighton, London, Sofia, Chicago, New York, Boston, Singapore, Melbourne, Shenzhen, Copenhagen, Stockholm [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/brandwatch)
- **Perks & community**: Personal development focus, internal communities (Parents at Brandwatch, Bakers, Creators, Dogs of Brandwatch) [brandwatch.com](https://www.brandwatch.com/company/careers/)
- **Open roles**: ~26 jobs listed across engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and professional services [job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/brandwatch)

## Sources
1. [brandwatch.com – About Us, Leadership & Culture](https://www.brandwatch.com/company/about/)
2. [brandwatch.com – Careers & Open Roles](https://www.brandwatch.com/company/careers/)
3. [brandwatch.com – Homepage](https://www.brandwatch.com/)
4. [job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io – Jobs at Brandwatch](http://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/brandwatch)
5. [builtin.com – Brandwatch Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/brandwatch)

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