Security Operations Engineer

Job Description

Are you interested in building resilient, dependable cybersecurity defenses that protect global digital environments? Would you like to be part of an international SecOps team helping NKT safeguard its digital workplace while contributing to a greener tomorrow? As a Security Operations Engineer, you will play a key role in developing, maintaining, and improving the security controls that protect endpoints, identities, networks, and cloud platforms. Joining a global company on an exciting growth journey, you will help us advance our detection and response capabilities and continuously improve our cybersecurity maturity.

Build and enhance security tooling that protects our global environments

In this role, you will design, maintain, and optimize our security controls and engineering processes. You will work closely with SecOps colleagues, IT teams, and our Managed Security Service Provider to ensure unified, high‑quality security coverage. With a clear focus on XDR, SIEM, Vulnerability Management and endpoint/cloud protection, you will help ensure that issues are identified fast and resolved with minimal impact.

Your responsibility will be to:

• Maintain and improve SIEM, XDR, vulnerability scanners, and other security tools.
• Identify and address coverage gaps and misconfigurations.
• Perform regular health checks and ensure that security tooling is up to date and functioning correctly.
• Assess recommendations from security tooling and coordinate remediation with responsible teams.

You will work in close collaboration with international teams. This position is located in Kaunas.

Systematic, structured, and motivated by continuous improvement

You thrive in a structured environment and are committed to ensuring high-quality Security Operations. With a structured approach and attention to detail, you communicate clearly, document thoroughly, and collaborate easily with colleagues across technical and nontechnical areas. You enjoy solving complex problems and contributing to a unified cybersecurity posture across a global organization.

You also have:

• 2+ years of experience in security engineering or IT engineering.
• Experience working in international environments.
• Understanding of security architecture, threat models, and defensive control design.
• Proficiency with SIEM and EDR platforms.
• Solid knowledge of operating systems, networking, identity systems, and cloud (Azure/AWS).
• Scripting or automation knowledge (PowerShell, Python, etc.).

Build modern security capabilities that support the energy transition

NKT is committed to promoting a diverse organization and a culture where people from different backgrounds can thrive and are inspired to perform at their best. We believe that a diverse organization enables sustainable performance, and that an inclusive and welcoming culture makes for a better place to work. In this role, you will join a collaborative international team where learning, development, and future career opportunities are integral parts of the employee experience. You will have the opportunity to broaden your skills, contribute to digital transformation initiatives such as SAP implementation, and support continuous improvements that improve global finance operations.

"Join NKT to protect, innovate, and grow together" says Hiring Manager, Ingrida Jokubaite.

Benefits and opportunities we provide

We offer you a modern office at Kauno Dokas with workplace where your knowledge and experience matter and also full of learning opportunities, and potential. In addition, we are offering:

• Opportunity to be a part of the global team.
• Interesting challenges and tasks, learning opportunities.
• Private health insurance.
• Additional 4 days of paid holidays.
• Flexible working hours.
• Tai chi classes on a regular basis.
• Company-funded access to Linkedin Learning platform.
• Free parking next to the office.

Salary range for this position is from 3600 Eur to 4400 Eur Gross.

Read more about our offer and listen to some voices of NKT Connectors here!

Aware that personality and cognitive tests might be included in the recruitment process. We will review applications continuously and close the process when we find the right match. We collect confidential candidate experience feedback to improve our recruitment process. Your responses are for quality development only and do not affect hiring decisions. If you have any questions, please reach out to Ugnė Šidlauskė, HR Partner at [email protected]. Please note that due to the GDPR regulations we cannot accept any applications via e-mail.

Be a Connector of the green tomorrow!