Security Engineer

Mexicoremoto; México; A distancia; MXN 2.968.000 - 3.154.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay

Disability Insurance

Retirement Plan

Learning and Development opportunities

Descripción de la vacante

Agile Defense is seeking a highly motivated Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain security solutions protecting enterprise systems, networks, and data. The role emphasizes a proactive approach, collaboration with SOC and other teams, and a commitment to mission objectives.

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, a minimum of 7 years of experience, and the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong technical background in security design and operations.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Responsabilidades

• Design, implement, maintain security solutions for enterprise systems, networks, and data.
• Monitor security tools, perform vulnerability assessments, support incident response and remediation.
• Collaborate with SOC, admins, developers, and stakeholders to strengthen security posture.
• Develop security documentation, support audits, and stay updated on threats and technologies.

Conocimientos

Network security

SASE/ZTNA

SD-WAN

Vulnerability assessment

Incident response

Security monitoring

Security controls

Compliance

Documentation

SOC collaboration

Threat intel

Educación

Bachelor's Degree

Descripción del empleo

About Agile Defense

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That's why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility-leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation's vital interests.

Requisition #: 2001

Job Title: Security Engineer

Location: Remote

Clearance Level: Ability to Obtain and Maintain a Public Trust Clearance

Job Description

SUMMARY We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Security Engineer to support and enhance our cybersecurity operations. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security solutions that protect enterprise systems, applications, networks, and data. This role requires a strong technical background, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and a commitment to supporting mission and customer objectives.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• A Security Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and improving security solutions that protect an organization's systems, networks, applications, and data from cyber threats.
• This role involves monitoring security tools and alerts, conducting vulnerability assessments, supporting incident response and remediation efforts, implementing security controls, and ensuring compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
• Security Engineers collaborate closely with SOC analysts, system administrators, developers, and stakeholders to identify risks, strengthen security posture, and support mission objectives.
• They also develop security documentation, support audits and assessments, analyze emerging threats, recommend process improvements, and stay current on evolving cybersecurity trends and technologies to enhance operational effectiveness and reduce organizational risk

Education and Years of Experience

• Bachelors Degree, 7 years of experience

Required Skills

• Engineering, deploying, and sustaining the enterprise network security infrastructure-next-generation firewalls, SASE/ZTNA, and SD-WAN-to ensure availability, performance, and a defensible security posture.
• Operating and maintaining defensive platforms day-to-day, including configuration management, policy tuning, software/firmware lifecycle and patching, capacity planning, and health monitoring.
• Leading engineering projects end-to-end-requirements, design, testing, and implementation-for new and upgraded capabilities such as SASE/ZTNA and SD-WAN across enterprise and hybrid (on-premises and cloud) environments.
• Developing and maintaining secure configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, and engineering documentation, and automating repeatable configuration and operational tasks to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
• Translating threat intelligence and detection findings into infrastructure-level defensive improvements-firewall policy, segmentation, access control, and traffic inspection-to harden the environment against current adversary tactics.
• Collaborating with the SOC, logging and observability, and network operations teams, and with product vendors, to integrate capabilities, resolve issues, and align infrastructure with operational and mission requirements.
• Operating and supporting intrusion detection sensor infrastructure to ensure reliable security telemetry delivery to the SOC and logging/observability teams.
• Identifying gaps in defensive coverage, resilience, and operational processes; recommending and implementing improvements; and providing technical input to architecture and roadmap decisions.

Preferred Skills

• Security Engineering Certifications

$160,000 - $170,000 a year

In addition, Agile Defense invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Agile's benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections.

Our Core Values

Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.

What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.

• Happy- Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
• Helpful- Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
• Honest- Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
• Humble- Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
• Hungry- Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
• Hustle- Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.