Cyber Defense Lead Engineer - Cloud Security & DevSecOps

Genuine Parts Company; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Genuine Parts Company in Birmingham, AL seeks a Cyber Defense Engineer IV to lead complex security engineering across cloud, IAM, and data protection. You will design, implement, and optimize security controls and automation within a modern enterprise environment.

The role requires deep technical expertise, ability to troubleshoot, and collaboration with IT and security teams to maintain incident readiness and compliance. This is a senior-level, hands-on position offering growth and impact.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• Eight to twelve years of related experience or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Impacts multiple areas, functions or processes.
• Designs and constructs moderately complex interfaces between ERP and legacy systems.
• Provides production support of moderately complex applications in production by troubleshooting issues, proposing solutions, developing and testing fixes, and migrating solutions.
• Uses back-end programming languages and front-end script languages to optimize performance, scalability, and security.
• Codes programming logic for new or existing solutions following design specifications.
• Handles installation, configuration, development, workflow design, monitoring, and upgrades of assigned software products.
• Maintains up-to-date records of issues with existing code.
• Monitors quality and performance of applications through testing and maintenance.
• Develops and maintains applications for business processes and systems.
• Ensures adherence to development best practices and standards of associate developers within the group.

Skills

Task management

Cloud security

IAM

Security tooling

Automation

Data loss prevention

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Job description

Genuine Parts Company in Birmingham, AL seeks a Cyber Defense Engineer IV to lead complex security engineering across cloud, IAM, and data protection. You will design, implement, and optimize security controls and automation within a modern enterprise environment.

The role requires deep technical expertise, ability to troubleshoot, and collaboration with IT and security teams to maintain incident readiness and compliance. This is a senior-level, hands-on position offering growth and impact.