Senior Security Engineer

Position Title: Security Engineer - Incident Response & Threat Hunting

Job Summary: A local employer is seeking a skilled Senior Cyber Security Engineer to join our Cyber Security team. This role will focus on leading incident response and threat hunting initiatives, ensuring effective detection, response, and resolution of security incidents. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in enterprise incident response, with proficiency in endpoint detection and response tools and managed detection and response services.

Essential Functions:

Develop Incident Response capabilities for detecting, responding to, and remediating security incidents.

Write incident response playbooks and procedures.

Lead security incident response efforts, coordinating with stakeholders for incident resolution.

Monitor threat feeds and provide guidance to the SOC and support teams.

Troubleshoot and resolve EDR and MDR tickets as needed.

Enhance detection and response capabilities through documentation, exercises, and training.

Conduct research on ongoing threat activity, analyzing threat intelligence data from various sources.

Analyze large datasets to identify trends and anomalies indicative of malicious activities.

Oversee third-party breach and forensic retainer service providers.

Develop technical and process documentation to improve incident response processes.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent certifications and experience.

7+ years of incident response, malware analysis, and forensic investigation experience.

4+ years of hands-on experience in responding to threats in public cloud environments.

4+ years of experience in Security Operations, Threat Hunting, or similar roles.

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Go, or others.

Extensive experience with EDR technologies, MDR services, and security toolsets.

Familiarity with security frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO, etc.) and cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).

Additional Details:

Work Location: Fixed Hybrid-Atlanta.