Description review

Cyber Security Engineer II

Ping Identity · UK · back to the listing

HR standards

46/100

poor

Title ↔ description

86/100

strong

Reads as

Security Engineer

100% confident

What this role officially is

ICT security administrator — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

ICT security administrators plan and carry out security measures to protect information and data from unauthorised access, deliberate attack, theft and corruption.

Also known as: network security administrator, system security administrator, ICT security administrators, IT security administrator

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What the listing never says

  • 30 bullet points. Long requirement lists deter qualified candidates, who read them as hard gates. Scope clarity
  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

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About Ping Identity:

At Ping Identity, we believe in making digital experiences both secure and seamless for all users, without compromise. We call this digital freedom. And it's not just something we provide our customers. It's something that inspires our company. People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom. They come to cultivate it.

Our intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want. Without friction. Without fear.

While protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture. We champion every identity. One of our core values, Respect Individuality, reminds us to celebrate differences so you are empowered to bring your authentic self to work.

We're headquartered in Denver, Colorado and we have offices and employees around the globe. We serve the largest, most demanding enterprises worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. At Ping Identity, we're changing the way people and businesses think about cybersecurity, digital experiences, and identity and access management.

As a Ping Cyber Security Engineer II, you will be involved with every facet of our enterprise systems, including our Software-as-a-Service business areas. You will be responsible for helping to build out and deploy security automation, harden security configuration, provide incident response, and more within the Cyber Security Engineering team. Cyber Security Engineers are expected to have a broad understanding of security principles, and be able to communicate and support other teams in the design and deployment of security and robust systems. This role would be well suited to an experienced Security Operations Centre analyst, or Site Reliability Engineer looking to transition into Security Engineering.

You will:

• Lead the design, develop, and implementation of incident response playbooks

• Perform incident response and coordination

• Lead in the assessment of system design and change

• Be part of a weekly on-call rotation

• Lead the design, develop, and implement engineered solutions that are reliable and maintainable

• Support in detection engineering

• Identify areas of the business that require security improvement and translate that into a workable solution

• Influence and align the team’s vision and strategy

• Collaborate cross functionality to support delivery of roadmap items and projects

Requirements

• Experienced with automation within Security Orchestration and Automation Tooling, as well as, bespoke scripting automation

• Experienced with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Systems, ideally, Google Chronicle, and YARA-L

• Strong understanding of Cloud (preferred AWS/GCP)

• Experienced working with container technologies, notably, Kubernetes and Docker in a development and incident response context

• Experienced deploying and utilising Endpoint Detection and Response tools

• Experienced leading cross functional projects

• Conducted and coordinated Incident Response involving multi-disciplinary teams

You have an advantage if:

• Golang development and public development projects

• Knowledge of Reverse Engineering

• Threat Intelligence utilisation and integration into security systems

Life at Ping:

We believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We’re growing quickly, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most importantly, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that’s who we want to succeed with every day.

Here are just a few of the things that make Ping special:

• A company culture that empowers you to do your best work.

• Employee Resource Groups that create a sense of belonging for everyone.

• Regular company and team bonding events.

• Competitive benefits and perks.

• Global volunteering and community initiatives

Our Benefits:

• Generous PTO & Holiday Schedule

• Parental Leave

• Progressive Healthcare Options

• Retirement Programs

• Opportunity for Education Reimbursement

• Commuter Offset (Specific locations)

Ping is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone’s individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity. In recruiting for new colleagues, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring and encourage you to be your best self.

We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 20 points (from 66 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.