Position: Cyber Security Engineer
Location: REMOTE
Duration: CTH
Main Points:
-Moving from QRadar and Cortex
Overview:
Client is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to join their Threat Detection and Response (TD&R) team. This role will be critical in expanding the company's cyber security infrastructure and ensuring effective security operations across a broad and complex platform. The engineer will play a key role in building out security tooling, integrating new solutions, and managing the existing security environment, all while focusing on incident response and platform consolidation. This is a full-time, remote role with core hours from 9am to 3pm EST.
Key Responsibilities:
- Security Tooling & Integration: Implement, administer, and build out security tools with a security-focused mindset. Key tools include Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Sentinel.
- Platform Transition: Lead the sunsetting of existing platforms (Qradar and Cortex) and transition to MS Sentinel. Help the team adopt and fully utilize the new SOAR platform.
- Objective-Driven Action Plans: Develop tactical execution plans for new initiatives such as OT platform integration, cloud monitoring, and dark web monitoring.
- Threat Detection & Response: Provide expertise in detecting and responding to security incidents across a large and diverse infrastructure.
- Self-Management: Work autonomously and take initiative in managing security operations. Participate in weekly stand-up meetings and collaborate with the TD&R Director and adjacent Cyber teams including GRC and Infrastructure.
- Incident Response: Handle occasional off-hours incident response and maintain operational readiness.
Qualifications:
- Experience with Microsoft Suite (Defender for Endpoint, MS Sentinel) is a must.
- Endpoint Management: Proven experience working with environments that include more than 10,000 endpoints (client has 40k), covering workstations, servers, sensors, and more than 10 sites.
- Security Tooling: Experience building out security tooling, managing incident response, and overseeing integrations across multiple platforms.
- Team Collaboration: Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, including governance team.
- Autonomous Worker: Should be comfortable generating ideas, taking initiative, and driving projects to completion without relying on task lists or micromanagement.
Dexian is a leading provider of staffing, IT, and workforce solutions with over 12,000 employees and 70 locations worldwide. As one of the largest IT staffing companies and the 2nd largest minority-owned staffing company in the U.S., Dexian was formed in 2023 through the merger of DISYS and Signature Consultants. Combining the best elements of its core companies, Dexian's platform connects talent, technology, and organizations to produce game-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals.
Dexian's brands include Dexian DISYS, Dexian Signature Consultants, Dexian Government Solutions, Dexian Talent Development and Dexian IT Solutions. Visit https://dexian.com/ to learn more.
Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
