Advanced Security Engineer - Gov

Relativity; Springfield (IL); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity is seeking an Advanced Cyber Security Engineer to protect our network and infrastructure. You will investigate threats, provide remediation guidance, and work with specialists to mitigate evolving risks using advanced toolsets.

Role requires U.S. citizenship for government product work and ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance. Hybrid work model. The salary range is $104,000–$156,000 with base compensation, bonus, and incentives.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of incident response or security operations center experience.
• Strong cyber incident response skills including network forensics, memory forensics, and/or packet analysis.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, network services, cryptography and web app attacks.
• Ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams to mature security posture.

Responsibilities

• Review, validate, and triage alerts and logs from sensors and threat intel.
• Assess impact of security events and deliver actionable escalations.
• Act as initial escalation point for cyber security events and drive investigations to completion.
• Perform near real-time analysis of logs and alerts across devices to classify security incidents.
• Detect and isolate advanced threats by probing telemetry and threat indicators.
• Contribute to incident handling policies aligning with global standards.
• Research emerging threats and apply countermeasures in a dynamic environment.
• Serve as SME on malicious activity analysis and mechanisms.
• Tune alerts and support junior team members in detection engineering.
• Maintain security infrastructure and ensure tooling is updated.

Skills

Incident response

Network forensics

TCP/IP

SaaS security

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Equivalent professional/military experience

Tools

SIEM

Forensics tools

Job description

Posting Type

Hybrid

Job Overview

As an Advanced Cyber Security Engineer, you will ensure the security of Relativity’s network and infrastructure. In this role, the main responsibilities will be to investigate and analyze emerging threats against our assets, identities, and clients. You will also provide actionable remediation guidance to end users and collaborate with highly skilled cyber experts to anticipate and mitigate evolving threats using world-class toolsets and next generation capabilities.

Due to specific customer contract requirements, this position requires that the successful candidate be a U.S. citizen. As a condition of your role supporting the RelativityOne Government product, you are required to obtain a Public Trust clearance. The process for obtaining the Public Trust clearance will be handled by the federal government and could include additional background screening regarding criminal history, drug use, financial records, and a character assessment. If you are unable to obtain the Public Trust clearance, you will be unable to work on the RelativityOne Government product, and your employment, if still in effect, may be terminated.

Job Description and Requirements

Role Responsibilities

What are the core duties of this role?

• Review, validation, and triage of alerts and technical analysis of log data from a diverse inventory of sensors, correlated signature logic, and threat intelligence sources.
• Assess the impact of security events by leveraging host, cloud,and network-based indicators and evidence to deliver actionable incident escalations.
• Act as the initial point of escalation for cyber security events and drive investigation to completion.
• Perform accurate and in-depth near real-time analysis of correlated logs and alerts from a multitude of devices with a focus on the classification of events that constitute security incidents.
• Proactively and iteratively search through collected telemetry to detect and isolate advanced threats that evade existing security solutions.
• Assist in the development of incident handling policies and procedures to align with global industry standards.
• Engage in the continuous research of emerging threats and apply appropriate countermeasures within the context of a rapidly changing environment.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in the mechanism and analysis of observed malicious activity.
• Perform consistent tuning of alerting and provide support to junior team members in detection engineering
• Maintain securityinfrastructureand take accountability for ensuring the tooling configuration is updated as required
• Assist on projects as and when required

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of3years of experience inincident response,securityoperations centre,incident analysis, or computer forensics.
• Strong cyber incident response skills (such as: Network forensics, memory forensics, and/or packet analysis)
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, network services, cryptography and web application attacks
• Ability to collaborate within a cross-functional team to execute on high-level objectives and drive the maturation of Relativity’s security posture
• Understanding of methods and tools utilized by attackers to access private systems and data
• Capability to independently manage the prioritization of complex events
• Understanding of infection mechanisms, malicious behavior, exploitation techniques, and mitigating controls.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent professional/military experience)
• 5+years of experience in Incident Response, Incident Analysis, or Computer Forensics
• Familiarity with industry standard security devices and their configuration
• Exposure to the analysis of malicious code to explore infection and propagation mechanisms
• Experience leveraging scripting languages to solve for information security use cases
• Outstanding work ethic with a passion for Cyber Security
• Certifications: One of more of the following certifications are preferred (GCFA, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GNFA, GREM, OSCP, or CEH)
• Experience working in a SaaS environment operatingona global scale.
• Experience in the legal space and with a high understanding of e-discovery and litigation.
• Experienceworkingwith cloud environments such as Azure, GCP, or AWS.

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.

The expected salary range for this role is between following values:$104,000 and $156,000

The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.

Required Skills

Access Management, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Security Architecture Design, Security Audit, Security Information, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Operations, Vulnerability Management