Cybersecurity Engineer — Remote/Hybrid, Incident Response Champion

Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC.; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC. is seeking a cybersecurity professional to join the team and strengthen our security posture across the organization. The role focuses on hands‑on incident response, vulnerability management, SIEM tuning, and collaboration with IT and engineering to remediate risks.

You will stay current with industry trends, deploy and optimize security tooling, and report security metrics to leadership. A hands‑on engineer with a proactive mindset is ideal for this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, MIS, computer science, or related field with a concentration in cybersecurity, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum of three years of relevant work experience in cybersecurity, with hands‑on experience administering security tooling.
• Life sciences experience is a plus.
• Industry certification such as GCIH, GCIA, OSCP, Security+, or a similar industry recognized certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, investigate, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity incidents, events, and threats in accordance with the incident response lifecycle.
• Configure and maintain the enterprise vulnerability management platform, including scan coverage, credentialed scanning, and reporting.
• Analyze and prioritize identified vulnerabilities based on risk, exploitability, and business context, and define the remediation queue.
• Partner with IT and engineering teams to identify remediation options or compensating workarounds, track remediation to closure, and guide teams on preventative measures.
• Engineer security solutions to mitigate risk and improve the security posture of MSD.
• Configure, tune, and operate the SIEM platform, including log source onboarding, correlation and alerting logic, and alert triage.
• Support email security operations and phishing triage, including analysis of reported messages and follow‑up containment actions.
• Evaluate and select assessment tools and other cybersecurity technologies to enhance security solutions.
• Understand IT security infrastructure and business requirements. Work with team to investigate and mitigate security concerns and IT risks as needed.
• Stay abreast of relevant industry updates and changes via conferences, training and events.
• Drive continuous improvement of security posture and provide hands‑on cybersecurity support to address cybersecurity issues as needed.
• Collect, report and continually enhance security metrics.

Skills

Incident response

Vulnerability management

SIEM

Cloud security (AWS)

Linux administration

Windows administration

Scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell)

Security standards & compliance

Network security

Threat modeling

Data security basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

SIEM platforms

Vulnerability management tools

Job description

Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC. is seeking a cybersecurity professional to join the team and strengthen our security posture across the organization. The role focuses on hands‑on incident response, vulnerability management, SIEM tuning, and collaboration with IT and engineering to remediate risks.

You will stay current with industry trends, deploy and optimize security tooling, and report security metrics to leadership. A hands‑on engineer with a proactive mindset is ideal for this position.