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Security Engineer
$80,000 - $90,000
Cybersecurity Engineer
from đşđ¸ United States
$80,000 - $90,000
What You'll Do
- You will own small-to-medium engineering projects end-to-end, configure and operate control sets without direct oversight, and partner closely with Senior and Principal engineers on the larger initiatives that cross multiple domains.
- Youâre the engineer who can pick up a control implementation, deliver it, document it, and hand it off cleanly to operations.
- Youâll start to grow real depth in a domain you care about â identity, endpoint, vulnerability, cloud security, or logging â and youâll be a working partner to Associate engineers on day-to-day execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Project ownership: Take small-to-medium engineering projects end-to-end â scoping, design partnership with a Senior, build, test, deploy, document, and hand off to operations. Deliver them on time without surprises.
- Control implementation and operation: Configure and operate security controls across identity, network, cloud, endpoint, logging/monitoring, encryption/key management, and vulnerability management. Execute against approved patterns and standards.
- Domain depth: Develop deepening expertise in at least one control domain (e.g., endpoint, identity, vulnerability management, cloud security, IAM, monitoring). Become a real go-to on that domain for the team.
- Vulnerability and patch operations: Run vulnerability and patch workflows â scan, prioritize, remediate, validate. Track remediation against SLA and close the loop.
- Change support: Participate in change reviews, assess security impact for in-scope systems, implement approved changes, and validate post-change posture.
- Evidence and documentation: Produce clean operational documentation â runbooks, change records, evidence artifacts â that holds up under audit and peer review.
- Detection and response support: Partner with the SOC and Detection Engineering on logging coverage, telemetry quality, and the engineering pieces of response (access tooling, isolation capabilities, evidence capture).
- Associate mentorship: Pair with Associate engineers on day-to-day execution. Review their tickets, walk them through the toolset, and grow them toward independence.
- Automation and tooling: Contribute scripts and automation to reduce manual toil (validation checks, evidence collection, repeatable deployments) under the guidance of Senior+ engineers.
What Success Looks Like
By 90 days: Youâve owned at least one small-to-medium project end-to-end â a vulnerability project, a hardening change, a logging coverage gap, or a tool configuration â and the result is documented, evidenced, and handed off cleanly.
By 6â12 months: Youâre the go-to on at least one domain, youâre trusted to execute approved patterns without close oversight, Associate engineers are routinely paired with you, and youâre a working partner on at least one cross-team initiative led by a Senior or Principal engineer.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years in security engineering, cloud engineering, or security operations with hands-on responsibility for implementing controls.
- Strong fundamentals in at least one of: identity and access management, network segmentation, vulnerability management, cloud security, endpoint security, centralized logging.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, GCP) in an engineering capacity.
- Comfortable executing vulnerability and patch workflows (scan, prioritize, remediate, validate).
- Ability to write clear operational documentation â runbooks, evidence artifacts, change records.
- Strong collaboration skills across Security, IT, and delivery teams.
- Comfortable mentoring Associate Engineers on day-to-day work
Preferred Qualifications
- Regulated-environment exposure (CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP-aligned, SOC 2, ISO 27001).
- Scripting / automation experience (Python, PowerShell, Bash); infrastructure-as-code familiarity a plus.
- Security certifications (Security+, SSCP, GSEC, AZ-500, AWS Security Specialty, or cloud/security engineering equivalents).
- Familiarity with incident-response procedures and evidence handling.
- Bachelorâs degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field â or equivalent applicable years of experience






