Cyber Defense Remediation Engineer

International Business Machines Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM is seeking a cybersecurity Remediation Engineer to support the CISO Remediation Team. You will help resolve security risks across the IBM enterprise, working at the intersection of security operations, engineering, and architecture.

You may remediate directly or drive fixes with engineering teams; strong candidates will show deep domain knowledge and effective communication with diverse stakeholders. The role emphasizes scalable remediation, durable security improvements, and collaboration

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently in fast-moving environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication across engineering, security, and business teams; ability to explain remediation steps to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience conducting security reviews and translating findings into actionable engineering guidance.
• Knowledge of vulnerability management, MITRE ATT&CK and other frameworks.
• Familiarity with using AI to assist triage and remediation.

Responsibilities

• Identify root causes and implement fixes to reduce recurrence.
• Partner with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to embed security within practices.
• Assess security and risk of applications, platforms, and infrastructure, including threat modeling.
• Apply security principles to protect systems and data (CIA: confidentiality, integrity, availability).
• Create technical documentation outlining remediation guidance and best practices.
• Develop or implement tools to support detection, prevention and analysis of security threats.

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

Remediation

Problem solving

Communication

Technical documentation

Threat modeling

Tools

EDR

SIEM

SOAR

Kubernetes

Job description

IBM is seeking a cybersecurity Remediation Engineer to support the CISO Remediation Team. You will help resolve security risks across the IBM enterprise, working at the intersection of security operations, engineering, and architecture.

You may remediate directly or drive fixes with engineering teams; strong candidates will show deep domain knowledge and effective communication with diverse stakeholders. The role emphasizes scalable remediation, durable security improvements, and collaboration