Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer managing endpoint, SIEM, vulnerability, and cloud security for clients. Securing AI systems through authorization, monitoring, and adversarial testing.
Responsibilities:
- Administer, configure, and tune core security platforms across multiple client tenants
- Own configuration baselines, policy alignment, and platform health
- Build and refine detection logic, reduce false positives, and create operational response playbooks
- Onboard and troubleshoot SIEM log sources
- Diagnose and repair broken ingestion and API integrations between security, monitoring, and ticketing platforms
- Triage alerts and events
- Serve as technical lead during live incidents alongside clients, internal teams, and third-party incident response firms
- Run vulnerability scanning and reporting
- Prioritize vulnerabilities by real exploitability and drive remediation to closure with engineering teams
- Define and enforce controls around AI systems with access to internal and client environments, including tool authorization, activity monitoring, and adversarial testing
- Automate recurring security operations work using scripting and platform APIs
- Own the technical relationship with security and managed detection vendors
- Evaluate whether vendor services match purchased requirements
- Write formal root cause analyses
- Execute changes through structured change management
- Maintain documentation of baselines, incidents, and tuning decisions for client audits
- Tailor configurations to each client environment
- Provide stakeholders with status reporting, executive-level summaries, and practical best-practice guidance
- Mentor junior engineers
- Collaborate with infrastructure, network, and service delivery teams
Requirements:
- Hands-on ownership of enterprise endpoint detection and response and of a SIEM and vulnerability management platform
- Experience with CrowdStrike Falcon and Rapid7 InsightIDR and InsightVM, or comparable platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Cortex, SentinelOne, or Tenable
- Hands-on experience securing and administering Microsoft identity and endpoint services: Entra ID, Conditional Access, Intune, and Microsoft Defender
- Cloud security experience in at least one major provider: Azure, AWS, or GCP, covering identity, workload, and posture management
- Automation ability using AI tooling, scripting (Python, PowerShell, or an equivalent), and direct work against vendor APIs
- Experience writing formal root cause analyses and working inside a structured change management process
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting instincts
- Clear client-facing communication
- Ability to work independently across many client environments at once
- Security or vendor certifications such as Security+, GCIH, or CISSP, or certifications from Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Rapid7, or Microsoft are preferred
- Working knowledge of a major control framework such as NIST CSF or 800-53, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, or CMMC is preferred
- Experience with data loss prevention, privileged access management, or zero trust network access is preferred
- 5+ years in security engineering or security operations
- Prior MSP/MSSP or other multi-client security experience is strongly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
- Role is remote within the United States
Benefits:
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match (annual dollar cap applied)
- Flexible time off plan
- 15 paid holidays
- Sick leave (amount varies by state requirements and is at least the minimum required by any state)
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process
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