Senior Security Engineer at Boston, MA

Position: Senior Security Engineer

Location: Boston, MA (100% Onsite)

Duration: 6-12 Months

Rate: $75-$78/hr

Client wants the consultant to work 100% onsite from Boston, MA office from Day 1

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Build a platform to detect threats to the company using an engineering-first approach that prioritizes reliability, maintainability and scalability.
• Leverage AI and automation to streamline detection and response operations in a safe and reliable manner.
• Onboard, normalize and optimize security logging data to support detection engineering, applied ML models, and efficient querying during incidents.
• Apply an engineering mindset to develop high-fidelity, rule-based and ML-driven detections as code, utilizing automated testing and CI/CD pipelines for deployment.
• Own the end-to-end response to alerts, threats, and security incidents, including participating in on-call rotations.
• Proactively monitor the threat landscape to identify and track emerging threats, ensuring that appropriate detective and preventative controls are deployed.
• Partner with development teams to design controls for a cloud first infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, etc.)

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in software, security, and/or data engineering.
• Strong desire to apply the latest technology including AI and ML to defend against threats.
• Experience with data pipelines and data engineering, especially centralized logging, SIEM tools, and data lakes.
• Desire to measure the success of your work with quantitative tools like Precision and Recall.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language like Python, Go or similar.
• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure and technologies like AWS, Kubernetes, containers, IaC, etc.
• Proven experience with good engineering practices like git/GitHub and CI/CD automations.
• Familiarity with tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors.
• Experience detecting and responding to cybersecurity incidents.
• Strong passion for continuous learning, especially relating to cybersecurity and technology.
• Team player with strong oral and written communication skills.
• Effective ability to make decisions independently and provide clear technical guidance to others.

Thank You,

Augustin Ahmed

Sr Resource Manager

Parmesoft Inc,