Security Operations Engineer II (Employer of Record)

Credit Acceptance is proud to be an award-winning company with workplace recognition in multiple categories! Our world-class culture is shaped by dedicated Team Members who share a drive to succeed as professionals and together as a company. A great product, amazing people and our stable financial history have made us one of the largest used car finance companies in the United States.In this role, you will work as a dedicated member of a globally distributed team, partnering closely with business partners in the U.S. to design, build, and scale t solutions that directly impact our customers and operations. While your legal employer will be our EoR partner, you will be fully integrated into our Credit Acceptance team for day-to-day work and collaboration.As a Security Operations Engineer II, you'll work with the team to understand, mitigate, and respond to threats quickly, restoring operations and limiting the impact. Additionally, you will apply knowledge of attacker techniques to uncover threats by analyzing log data and researching vulnerabilities to report on and build automation. Technical expertise and the ability to transform raw data into valuable information are essential for success in this role. Additionally, you will aid in supporting the vulnerability management program and senior security engineer within the SOC.Outcomes and Activities Information SecurityOperate and tune enterprise security tools (EDR, SIEM/SOAR, WAF/proxy, email security).Manage proxy filtering policies, exceptions, SSL inspection, and performance troubleshooting.Build automation and playbooks (Python/PowerShell, SOAR, APIs) to streamline SecOps tasks.Implement CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows for consistent, auditable security configuration changes.Author and tune detection rules; improve signal quality and reduce false positives.Maintain and author health dashboards, uptime/coverage metrics, and change governance documentation.Conduct knowledge transfers through runbooks, how-to guides, tabletop exercises, and lunch & learn training sessions.Maintain upgrade schedules, license compliance, configuration baselines, and key/secret rotations.Administer URL/category policies, SSL inspection, identity-aware policies, geo/risk-based controls, and performance troubleshooting.Analyze block events for false positives; measure impact; retire exceptions on schedule and report residual risk.Build and maintain an automation backlog in partnership with SecOps, prioritizing high-frequency, high-toil tasks.Provide on-call support for tooling availability and ingestion/normalization issues.Report on metrics (uptime, coverage, MTTR, lead time, change success rate, exception aging).Keep documentation, diagrams, and asset inventories current.As needed, monitor and respond to alerts raised by various toolsets as part of an ongoing 24/7 Security Operations Center.Report outages or incidents following guidelines and procedures.Detect, analyze, and respond to incidents, coordinate with other stakeholders for containing, eradicating, and recovering from an incident.Assist in developing testing criteria to implement new signatures/rules.OtherPerform all other duties as assigned.Participate in on-call rotations, including nights, weekends, and holidays.Remains compliant with our policies, processes and legal guidelines.Works primarily remotely with some occasional travel to a Credit Acceptance building.Competencies: Customer Empathy: Customer Empathy is the ability to understand the perspectives, pain points, and experiences of customers. It involves actively putting oneself in the customer’s shoes, comprehending their needs and challenges, and using that understanding to provide a better, more customer-centric experience.Engineering Excellence: Engineering Excellence is about bringing great craftsmanship and thought leadership to deliver an outstanding product that delights customers and solves for the business. This involves the pursuit and achievement of high standards, best practices, innovation, and superior solutions.One Team: A One Team mindset refers to a collaborative approach across the organization, where individuals work together seamlessly, without boundaries, as a single, cohesive team. Shared goals, open communication and mutual support create a sense of collective purpose. This enables teams to navigate challenges and pursue shared objectives more effectively.Owner’s Mindset: Owner’s Mindset involves adopting a set of behaviors that reflect a sense of responsibility, accountability, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to managing your domain. As an owner, you understand the business and your domain(s) deeply and solve for the right outcome for the domain(s) and the business.Requirements:Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Science or closely related field of study or equivalent experienceMinimum 2 years of experience in cyber security, anomaly detection, Security Operations Cente