Minimum Qualification(s)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise security engineering, IT security operations, endpoint security engineering, network security engineering, or security tools administration.
- Experience owning production security platforms, including deployment, configuration, service health and capacity/performance monitoring, operational support, change management, upgrades, patching, optimization, incident troubleshooting, and maintaining service availability.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise security technologies such as EDR/AV, SIEM, IDS/IPS, VPN, SWG, CASB, firewalls, vulnerability scanners, or endpoint management platforms, including agent/client rollout, policy configuration, health monitoring, version upgrades, and issue remediation.
- Programming or scripting ability, such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or API-based automation, with experience automating repetitive security operations or security tool administration tasks.
- Strong understanding of Windows, Linux, endpoint, network, and application security, with the ability to troubleshoot issues across agents, servers, networks, APIs, integrations, and backend infrastructure;
perform root cause analysis;
and coordinate remediation with infrastructure, endpoint, network, SOC, and vendor teams.
Preferred Qualification(s)
- Experience with security tool integrations and telemetry/log forwarding to SIEM, SOC, or incident response teams, including log source onboarding, connector configuration, parser/field mapping, and data pipeline validation.
- Experience with vulnerability validation, security control testing, or technical security assessments, with the ability to validate findings, understand attacker techniques, and translate results into security tool configuration or control improvements.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne, Carbon Black, Trend Micro, McAfee ePO, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Intune, Jamf, SCCM, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, Zscaler, Netskope, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar, Tenable, Qualys, or Rapid7.
- Experience designing or automating security tool health checks, endpoint compliance reporting, patch tracking, failed installation remediation, log pipeline validation, policy deployment, or security operations reporting.
- Relevant professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, Security+, GCIH, GCIA, GCED, OSCP, or equivalent.