Cyber Security Engineer

Insight Global; Garden Grove (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer to join the Security Operations team. The role focuses on monitoring, response, tooling, workflows, and cross-team coordination to protect the company from cyber threats. It is hands-on and requires collaboration with IT, vendors, and business units.

The position is permanent and hybrid, located near one of the customer’s main offices. The role can pay up to $150,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field is preferred.
• Minimum 4–6 years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, IT operations, networking, or related role.

Responsibilities

• Investigate alerts, respond to incidents, and follow up on vulnerabilities.
• Improve operational workflows and security tooling coordination.
• Turn security events into clear action, documentation, and remediation.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, IT, infrastructure, vendors, and business teams.

Skills

Incident response

Threat detection

Security operations

Communication skills

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

EDR

SIEM

Email security

Identity security

Vulnerability management

ITSM

Job description

Strong hands-on security operations, incident response, threat detection, or vulnerability experience.

Experience with EDR, SIEM, email security, identity security, vulnerability management, ITSM, or similar tools.

Solid understanding of alert triage, endpoint security, identity risk, cloud security, and response workflows.

Experience supporting investigations, incidents, vulnerabilities, tool tuning, or process improvement.

Ability to work well with both business stakeholders and technical teams.

Strong communication skills and a practical, straightforward approach.

Ability to sort through technical issues, make sound recommendations, and keep work moving. Experience with MSSP coordination, incident playbooks, SIEM tuning, or automation is preferred. Interest in tools that improve visibility, automation, reporting, and day-to-day execution.

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field is preferred.

Minimum 4 – 6 years of experience in cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, IT operations, networking, or related role.

Job Description

One of Insight Global’s customers is looking to onboard a Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer to their team. Security Operations is a key part of the client's cybersecurity program, supporting the monitoring, response, tooling, workflows, and coordination that help protect the company from cyber threats. This role helps improve how Southland detects issues, responds to incidents, manages operational risk, and keeps security work moving across users, endpoints, servers, cloud services, and business systems. As a Sr. Engineer in Security Operations, you will work with cybersecurity, IT, infrastructure, support, vendors, and business teams to investigate alerts, respond to incidents, follow up on vulnerabilities, and improve operational workflows. This role is hands-on and helps turn security events into clear action, documentation, and remediation. This is a permanent role and must sit hybrid, near one of the customer’s main offices.

This role can pay up to a salary of $150,000 per year.