Cybersecurity Engineer: Detection & Tooling Lead

Ingenix Technologies, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Ingenix Technologies, Inc. is seeking a cybersecurity engineer to develop, configure, test, and evaluate tools, detections, dashboards, and workflows that safeguard critical systems.

You will support security assessments, analyze architectures, and collaborate across software, systems, hardware, and cybersecurity teams to embed protections into prototypes and customer solutions. Strong scripting and security experience are required.

Qualifications

• Experience in cybersecurity engineering, network security, security tool development, detection engineering, system hardening, or vulnerability analysis.
• Understanding of networking, operating systems, logging, access control, vulnerability management, and defensive security principles.
• Ability to develop scripts, tools, queries, rules, or automation using Python, Bash, PowerShell, SQL, or similar technologies.
• Comfortable analyzing technical systems, troubleshooting security issues, and communicating practical mitigation options.
• US Citizenship and ability to obtain a Secret clearance

Responsibilities

• Develop, configure, test, and evaluate cybersecurity tools, scripts, detections, dashboards, or analysis workflows
• Support network and system security assessments, including traffic analysis, vulnerability analysis, logging, and defensive monitoring
• Work with IDS/IPS, SIEM, packet capture, endpoint, or custom security tools to identify and investigate security-relevant behavior
• Analyze system architectures, communication paths, interfaces, and data flows for cybersecurity concerns
• Collaborate with software, systems, hardware, and cybersecurity teammates to integrate security capabilities into larger prototypes or customer systems
• Document findings, assumptions, test results, technical tradeoffs, and recommended mitigations for engineering and customer audiences

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Network security

Security tool development

Detection engineering

System hardening

Vulnerability analysis

Python scripting

Bash/PowerShell/SQL scripting

Mitigation communication

US Citizenship & Secret clearance

Tools

YARA

Sigma

Suricata

Zeek

Wireshark

Splunk

Elastic

Job description

Ingenix Technologies, Inc. is seeking a cybersecurity engineer to develop, configure, test, and evaluate tools, detections, dashboards, and workflows that safeguard critical systems.

You will support security assessments, analyze architectures, and collaborate across software, systems, hardware, and cybersecurity teams to embed protections into prototypes and customer solutions. Strong scripting and security experience are required.