Cybersecurity Engineer

Cybersecurity Engineer 

 
The Cybersecurity Engineer owns the day-to-day security operations of the organization's fully cloud-based technology environment. This is the company's dedicated security role, and it operates with a high degree of independence: the incumbent drafts and sets the approved operational security agenda, oversees external MDR, drives vulnerability and access remediation with system owners, and carries the organization through external audit. Because the scope is broad by design, the role is structured to scale through leverage — directing managed security service providers and specialist vendors for around-the-clock monitoring and surge capacity, while retaining ownership of strategy, configuration, escalation, and outcomes in-house. 

The successful candidate is equally comfortable investigating an alert at the console and explaining residual risk to business leadership. This is a high-visibility role with a direct line to decisions about how the organization protects its data, its residents' information, and its capital. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

Threat Detection & Incident Response 

• Own detection and response across cloud identity, endpoint, email, and cloud infrastructure, including triage, containment, eradication, and recovery 

• Serve as primary incident responder and incident commander for security events, coordinating internal stakeholders, managed service providers, and outside counsel or forensics as required 

• Maintain and exercise the incident response plan, including tabletop exercises and post-incident reviews that produce tracked corrective actions 

• Develop and tune detection rules, alert logic, and automated response playbooks to reduce mean time to detect and mean time to respond 

• Build and maintain runbooks for recurring incident types so that response is repeatable and not dependent on a single individual 

Security Monitoring, SIEM & Reporting 

• Administer the security information and event management (SIEM) platform, including data source onboarding, log ingestion health, normalization, and retention configuration 

• Manage ingestion cost and data tiering to keep monitoring coverage aligned with budget 

• Build and maintain dashboards, analytics rules, and workbooks that provide operational visibility into the security posture of the cloud environment 

• Produce recurring security reporting for IT leadership and executive stakeholders, translating technical findings into business risk and clear recommendations 

• Define and track security metrics — detection coverage, alert volume and disposition, patch and remediation timeliness, phishing susceptibility, and audit readiness 

 
Vulnerability & Configuration Management 

• Run the vulnerability management lifecycle across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and third-party platforms: discovery, assessment, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, and verification 

• Partner with system and application owners to drive remediation to closure, escalating where service-level targets are at risk 

• Assess and harden security configuration baselines against recognized benchmarks, and monitor for configuration drift 

• Coordinate external penetration testing and vulnerability assessments, and manage the resulting findings through to resolution 

• Maintain the risk register and formal exception process for accepted risks, with documented compensating controls and review dates 

 
Identity & Privileged Access Governance 

• Administer privileged identity and privileged access management, including just-in-time elevation, approval workflows, activation justification, and time-bound role assignment 

• Conduct recurring privileged access reviews and audits, validating that standing administrative access is eliminated or justified and that every elevation is attributable 

• Own access review and recertification cycles across the cloud tenant and integrated business platforms, coordinating with business owners as reviewers 

• Review and strengthen conditional access, multifactor authentication, and device compliance policies, including break-glass account controls and their periodic testing 

• Monitor for identity-based threats — token theft, consent phishing, risky sign-ins, legacy authentication, and over-permissioned service principals and application registrations 

 
Cloud & DevOps Security 

• Provide security oversight of the organization's cloud productivity tenant and cloud infrastructure platform, including tenant-level security configuration and posture management 

• Embed security into development and automation pipelines: secrets management, dependency and container scanning, infrastructure-as-code review, and pipeline identity and permission hygiene