Cybersecurity Remediation Engineer (Hybrid)

IBM; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Infrastructure & Technology in the United States is seeking a Cybersecurity Remediation Engineer to drive technical remediation across the enterprise, working at the intersection of security operations, engineering, and architecture.

You will help teams recover from incidents, remediate vulnerabilities, and implement scalable security improvements, partnering with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to embed security in existing practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team in fast-moving environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail and a proactive mindset.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, security, and business teams; explain remediation steps to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience conducting security reviews and translating findings into actionable engineering guidance.
• Experience applying and maintaining secure configurations across systems, networks, or applications.
• Ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate triage, remediation recommendations, and incident response, with human review.

Responsibilities

• Containment, recovery, and remediation by identifying root causes and implementing fixes.
• Partner with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to embed security within existing practices.
• Conduct security and risk assessments of applications, platforms, and infrastructure, including threat modeling and technical reviews.
• Apply security principles to protect systems and data, ensuring availability, authentication, authorization, confidentiality, and integrity.
• Create technical documentation outlining remediation guidance and best practices.
• Develop or implement tools to support detection, prevention and analysis of threats.

Skills

Python

Ansible

Terraform

IBM Cloud

AWS

Azure

GCP

Windows OS

Linux OS

EDR

NGFW

IDS

SIEM

SOAR

Container platforms

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

IBM Infrastructure & Technology in the United States is seeking a Cybersecurity Remediation Engineer to drive technical remediation across the enterprise, working at the intersection of security operations, engineering, and architecture.

You will help teams recover from incidents, remediate vulnerabilities, and implement scalable security improvements, partnering with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to embed security in existing practices.