Cybersecurity Engineer — Remote Incident Response & Vulnerability

MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS; Rockville (MD); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS is seeking a cybersecurity professional to strengthen our security posture. You will operate and tune core security tooling, drive vulnerability remediation with IT and engineering, and support security monitoring and incident response.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, data-driven metrics, and staying current with industry trends; occasional telework is available in a hybrid office environment in Rockville, MD.

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 similar 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.
• 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; investigate and mitigate security concerns and IT risks as needed.
• Stay abreast of industry updates via conferences, training and events.
• Drive continuous improvement of security posture and provide hands-on cybersecurity support to address issues.
• Collect, report and continually enhance security metrics.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Security monitoring

Incident response

SIEM

Cloud security

Linux administration

Windows administration

Python scripting

Network security

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, MIS, computer science, or related field

Tools

SIEM platforms

Vulnerability scanners

Job description

MESO SCALE DIAGNOSTICS is seeking a cybersecurity professional to strengthen our security posture. You will operate and tune core security tooling, drive vulnerability remediation with IT and engineering, and support security monitoring and incident response.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, data-driven metrics, and staying current with industry trends; occasional telework is available in a hybrid office environment in Rockville, MD.