Lead Cybersecurity Defense Engineer

Role Overview

• Serve as the organization’s senior-most technical authority within the defensive security domain
• Responsible for setting technical direction, architecting advanced defensive capabilities, and driving continuous improvement across detection engineering, incident response, and security operations engineering at an enterprise scale
• Lead the design of resilient, scalable, and threat-informed defensive controls aligned to real-world adversary behavior and organizational risk
• Partner closely with SOC leadership, security engineering, identity, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to influence design decisions
• Mentor senior engineers, set engineering standards and guide response strategy during complex incidents

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years of experience IT
• 7+ technical cybersecurity experience (3+ years incident response and/or detection engineering and 3+ years in cybersecurity engineering)
• Expert level knowledge of detection engineering and incident response
• At least 1 expert level cybersecurity certification such as CISSP, CASP, CCSP, etc.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Cyber Security

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage including life and disability insurance
• paid time off
• paid holidays
• 401(k) plan
• competitive wages
• flexible hours
• associate discount