Cybersecurity Engineer IV

Job#: 3033712

Job Description:
Cybersecurity Engineer IV

Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview

Our organization is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer IV to join the Security Engineering team. This role is focused on designing, implementing, and operating traditional security platforms and AI-enabled security systems. The position involves integrating Agentic AI-driven security operations to enable intelligent automation, contextual threat analysis, and advanced security workflows across enterprise platforms, ensuring best practices and advancing automation maturity.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and review security controls across enterprise platforms including cloud, SaaS, and on-premise environments.
• Build and manage enterprise security tools and infrastructure.
• Architect and deploy AI-powered security workflows using Agentic AI frameworks.
• Develop and maintain Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and integrations for security tools and data sources.
• Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for threat intelligence, alert contextualization, and SOC knowledge retrieval.
• Integrate AI capabilities into vendor platforms such as Splunk, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, and SentinelOne.
• Design and deploy AI-driven playbooks and automation workflows for detection and response.
• Evaluate and onboard emerging AI-native security technologies.
• Configure, troubleshoot, and maintain security infrastructure.
• Conduct security assessments and continuously improve security posture.
• Perform OS and infrastructure hardening, logging, and monitoring.
• Communicate technical risks and strategies to leadership.

Required Qualifications

Experience:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering tools (EDR, SIEM, SOAR).
• 2+ years of experience in AI application and agent development.
• 5+ years of programming/scripting experience with Python, Go, or an equivalent language.

Technical Skills:

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining enterprise security platforms.
• Hands-on experience building or integrating Agentic AI systems.
• Experience with RAG architectures (vector search + LLM pipelines), vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate), and embedding models/LLM APIs.
• Experience building or integrating MCP servers or equivalent context-sharing frameworks.
• Ability to design multi-step AI workflows (agents) for security use cases.
• Understanding of prompt engineering, context management, and model limitations.
• Experience integrating AI/automation into platforms like Splunk, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, and SentinelOne.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with LLM frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Semantic Kernel.
• Familiarity with AI observability, evaluation, and guardrails.
• Experience with security data lakes and large-scale telemetry pipelines.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, AWS Solutions Architect, or Splunk certifications.
• Experience in the media/entertainment industry or a global distributed environment.

Compensation & Benefits

A competitive compensation package is offered for this position.

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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