Cyber Security Engineer II

Hybrid in Columbia, SC, US • Posted 2 days ago • Updated 2 days ago
Contract W2
11 Months
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • CYBER SECURITY
  • CYBERSECURITY
  • SECURITY
  • AI
  • CHATGPT
  • CLAUDE
  • MACHINE LEARNING
  • THREAT DETECTION

Summary

DPP is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer II for an opportunity with our client in the healthcare insurance industry.
 
Work location: Hybrid in Columbia, SC
Duration: 11 months
Shift: Onsite Tues, Wed, Thurs and as needed; 8:00AM-5:00PM
Terms: W2 Contract
Work authorization: ; must be able to obtain/maintain a Low-level (Public Trust) clearance
 
About the Team:
  • The Cyber Security Engineer II will join the Cybersecurity Operations Center with 13 people, half analysts, half engineers for a hands-on AI focused engineering position.
  • This team is currently continuing to integrate new SIEM with multiple platforms and roll out new AI security initiatives
Responsibilities:
  • Detection catalog in production: Publish an AI threat detection catalog mapped to telemetry sources and deploy an initial prioritized detection set with a monthly tuning cadence.
  • Faster, cleaner triage: Reduce repeat false positives and improve time-to-triage/time-to-escalation for AI-related alerts through enrichment and tuning.
  • Monitored guardrails: Stand up baseline monitoring and anomaly thresholds for approved AI tools and deliver recurring executive-ready reporting on risky usage patterns and remediation.
  • Validated response capability: Publish AI-focused IR runbooks and validate via tabletop exercises; feed lessons learned into playbooks and detection tuning.
Required Qualifications:
  • Understanding of GitHub or Gitlab, and CICD pipelines
  • Security operations/detection engineering/IR experience with SIEM/SOAR workflows; automation/scripting skills (e.g., Python, KQL/SPL).
  • Working knowledge of AI/ML risk patterns (prompt injection, data leakage, and over-trust of outputs).
  • Communication and leadership skills. Will be working across teams that include execs, architects, senior technical staff
Required Education:
  • Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job-related degree;
  • OR 4 years of job-related work experience;
  • OR 2 years of job-related experience plus an associate’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job-related degree.
Required Work Experience:
  • 6 years of job-related technical experience.
Required Software and Other Tools:
  • Advanced proficiency with applicable IT Security tools (software and hardware)
  • Microsoft Office
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Previous network engineer experience
  • Previous SOC analyst/engineer experience
  • Certifications related to AI/Machine Learning
Preferred Work Experience:
  • Experience in network security (Cisco ASA, IPS, VPN, RSA SecurID, PKI, cryptography), security controls for LAN/WANs, client servers, web-based systems, and databases.
  • Experience with configuration of security devices such as firewalls, intrusion prevention, patch deployment, and risk assessment/ vulnerability scanners.
Preferred Licenses and Certificates:
  • CISA, CISM, CISSP
Interested? Learn more:
Click the apply button to learn more about this position (#26-00989).
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  • Dice Id: 10114775
  • Position Id: 26-00989
  • Posted 2 days ago
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