AI Security Engineer, Detection and Response
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JobgetherCybersecurity
Candidates must be based in the United States.Full-TimeSenior
SalaryCompetitive annual salary based on geographic location: Region 1: $151,300–$178,000. Region 2: $138,550–$163,000. Region 3: $127,500–$150,000.
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 5 years of professional cybersecurity experience, primarily focused on security operations, detection engineering, and incident response.
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonCybersecurityAzure
Requirements
- Have at least 5 years of professional cybersecurity experience, primarily focused on security operations, detection engineering, and incident response.
- Have experience leading security incident investigations, managing complex security events, and conducting digital forensics.
- Have hands-on experience developing, implementing, and tuning detection rules within security monitoring and detection platforms.
- Have experience building or integrating end-to-end AI agents and LLM-based solutions for security operations, particularly alert triage, automated investigations, and incident response.
- Have strong scripting and automation capabilities, particularly with Python.
- Have practical experience working with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Be familiar with infrastructure-as-code practices and automated deployment workflows.
- Be able to combine AI technologies with established cybersecurity methodologies and understand the limitations and risks of automated security decisions.
- Have analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to manage immediate security incidents alongside longer-term engineering initiatives.
- Have organizational and prioritization skills, including the ability to remain calm and make sound decisions under pressure.
- Have written and verbal communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Have interpersonal and collaboration skills to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy AI-powered agents and automation workflows to investigate and triage security alerts, enrich incidents, develop detection rules, and execute approved response actions.
- Develop and optimize automated security processes for routine operations.
- Conduct AI-driven threat hunting, identify security gaps, and translate findings into detection capabilities.
- Manage the security incident response lifecycle, from detection and investigation through recovery and post-incident reviews.
- Perform digital forensics and security investigations across endpoint, cloud, identity, and SaaS environments.
- Write, implement, and continuously improve detections using code-based detection engineering practices.
- Coordinate incident response and strengthen security processes with engineering, IT, managed security operations partners, and leadership.
- Identify opportunities to improve security visibility, operational efficiency, and automation through AI-driven solutions.
- Contribute to a scalable detection and response strategy that protects organizational systems, data, and users.
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