Cybersecurity Engineer: Design, Deploy & Protect Infrastructures

Meriplex; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Meriplex is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to provide hands-on cybersecurity engineering and advisory services to clients. You will design, deploy, configure, and support security technologies across infrastructure, cloud services, networks, and endpoints, partnering with clients to understand their security maturity and business objectives.

The role involves developing security documentation, incident response playbooks, and guiding teams on frameworks like NIST/ISO.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of security industry experience or equivalent skill level.
• 5+ years of experience managing Active Directory and Windows Server.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is a plus but not required.
• Experience with systems administration and network infrastructure is required.
• Previously assessed, developed, and implemented, operationalized, and documented comprehensive security technologies and processes.

Responsibilities

• Design and secure security infrastructure to ensure a robust and resilient security posture.
• Perform complex deployments of security technologies.
• Execute information security activities such as vulnerability management, application development security, business continuity, networking, risk management, etc.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security controls and protocols into the client's infrastructure and applications.
• Develop and maintain security documentation, including architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, and incident response playbooks.
• Ability to understand various security framework standards and compliance requirements, such as NIST 800-53, ISO 270001, NIST CSF, CIS, how those standards impact business operations, and what organizations must do to meet those requirements.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and industry trends, and proactively recommend and implement countermeasures to enhance our clients’ security posture.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to clients and internal teams on security best practices, technologies, and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Actively research, evaluate, and drive next generation security technologies and solutions to solve the organizations needs.
• Assist in incident response activities such as firewall log review, firewall configuration, SIEM review, XDR review.

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Threat modeling

EDR/XDR

Cloud security

Windows security

Linux security

Networking

Compliance knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

SentinelOne

CrowdStrike

Fortinet

Palo Alto

SonicWALL

VMware

Windows Server

Active Directory

KQL

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Job description

Meriplex is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to provide hands-on cybersecurity engineering and advisory services to clients. You will design, deploy, configure, and support security technologies across infrastructure, cloud services, networks, and endpoints, partnering with clients to understand their security maturity and business objectives.

The role involves developing security documentation, incident response playbooks, and guiding teams on frameworks like NIST/ISO.