Cybersecurity Engineer – M&A

Remote • Posted 3 hours ago • Updated 3 hours ago
Contract W2
12 Months
No Travel Required
Remote
$70/hr
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Job Details

Skills

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Incident Management
  • Email Security
  • Due Diligence
  • Security Controls
  • Roadmaps
  • SAML
  • SIEM
  • SPF
  • SSL
  • Security Architecture
  • Splunk
  • Virtual Private Network
  • WAF

Summary

Role: Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – M&A

Location: Fully Remote – U.S.
Pay Rate: $70/hr
Duration: 12-month contract, possible extension/conversion
Schedule: 8 AM–5 PM EST, Monday–Friday
Hours: 40/week | No OT | No weekends

 

Job Summary

Seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer with strong M&A cybersecurity due diligence and post-acquisition integration experience. The ideal candidate will be hands-on across enterprise security domains and able to assess security controls, identify risks, and develop Day 1/Day 100 integration plans.

Key Responsibilities

  • Conduct cybersecurity due diligence for acquisition targets and identify technical/security risks.
  • Validate security configurations and controls across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and infrastructure.
  • Perform compromise assessments, threat hunting, endpoint triage, and IoC analysis.
  • Assess firewalls, IDS/IPS, proxies, WAF, VPN, ZTNA, network segmentation, and SSL/TLS controls.
  • Evaluate IAM technologies including SAML, OAuth, MFA, federation, PAM, and Zero Trust.
  • Assess PKI, certificate management, email security, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and SIEM/logging environments.
  • Develop Day 1/Day 100 integration plans, remediation roadmaps, and tooling consolidation strategies.
  • Work with platforms such as CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Splunk, Wiz, and Microsoft security technologies.
  • Gather infrastructure/security metrics from AD, cloud, CMDB, endpoint management, vulnerability scanners, and SIEM platforms.
  • Communicate technical findings and recommendations to engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

  • 8+ years of cybersecurity engineering/security architecture experience.
  • Strong hands-on experience across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and infrastructure security.
  • Extensive M&A due diligence and/or post-acquisition integration experience.
  • Experience with threat hunting, incident response, security assessments, and remediation.
  • Strong technical documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
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  • Dice Id: 91099677
  • Position Id: 9102535
  • Posted 3 hours ago
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