Cyber Defense Engineer: Threat Detection & Vulnerability Lead

Pratt Industries, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Pratt Industries, Inc. is seeking a proactive cybersecurity professional to support threat detection, incident response, and security orchestration. You will partner with an MSSP to monitor, investigate, and respond to threats while driving improvement across the vulnerability management program and security controls.

The role emphasizes balancing operational duties with strategic initiatives to reduce risk and strengthen Pratt’s cyber resilience across a distributed manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, IT, computer science, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience in incident response, SOC operations, and threat detection.
• Experience with XDR/SIEM platforms and Microsoft 365 security tools.
• Ability to script and customize security tooling (PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; professional certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and manage security events, containing incidents and producing reports for leadership.
• Partner with an MSSP to monitor, triage, investigate, and respond to alerts.
• Configure, troubleshoot and maintain security infrastructure and logging systems.
• Own and manage the enterprise vulnerability management program and remediation tracking.
• Collaborate with IT to deploy new security controls and incident prevention strategies.
• Oversee metrics and dashboards to measure security operations efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to improve controls and research new security technologies.
• Contribute to security standards, policies, and technical documentation.

Skills

Incident response

SOC experience

XDR/SIEM

Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash,/)

Strong communication

Security certifications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, IT, computer science, or related field

Tools

Google SecOps

Microsoft Defender

Purview

Intune

Entra

Tenable Nessus

Job description

Pratt Industries, Inc. is seeking a proactive cybersecurity professional to support threat detection, incident response, and security orchestration. You will partner with an MSSP to monitor, investigate, and respond to threats while driving improvement across the vulnerability management program and security controls.

The role emphasizes balancing operational duties with strategic initiatives to reduce risk and strengthen Pratt’s cyber resilience across a distributed manufacturing environment.