Endpoint Security Engineer

NikSoft Systems Corp; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NikSoft Systems Corp. is seeking an Endpoint Security Engineer to design, deploy, and operationalize advanced EDR/XDR capabilities across a vast enterprise fleet.

You will balance proactive protection with business continuity, working with end-users, application owners, and SOC analysts to minimize downtime and maximize security efficacy. The role requires expertise in NGAV/EDR tooling, cross-platform endpoints, and multi-cloud protection, with a focus on scalable automation and incident

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• 7+ years in technical cybersecurity engineering or infrastructure security roles.
• 3–5+ years engineering and administering enterprise-grade EDR/XDR across 50,000+ endpoints.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain NGAV and EDR/XDR agents across hundreds of thousands of endpoints.
• Implement active behavioral protections against zero-day malware and living-off-the-land techniques.
• Serve as primary technical partner to application owners to minimize false positives and downtime.

Skills

EDR/XDR engineering

Behavioral analysis

Hybrid infrastructure

Automation & scripting

AI/ML in security

Stakeholder empathy

Crisis leadership

Infrastructure-as-Code

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CS-related field

Tools

CrowdStrike Falcon

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

SentinelOne

Splunk/SIEM

Job description

We are searching for an Endpoint Security Engineer to add to its team in support of the United States Postal Service's Cybersecurity program. As an Endpoint Security Engineer, you will design, deploy, and operationalize active, behavior-based endpoint detection and response (EDR/XDR) capabilities across one of the largest private operational fleets in North America. Protecting an enterprise comprising 600,000+ employees and 30,000+ physical sites, you will maintain rigorous security posture across traditional end-user computing (EUC) devices (laptop, desktop, mobile devices & retail terminals), on-premises physical & virtual servers & containerized workloads, and dynamic multi-cloud workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP).

In this role, you will balance proactive protection with business continuity-partnering directly with end-users and application owners to tune policies and eliminate operational friction, while providing tier-3/tier-4 technical escalations to Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts and IT Operations staff during active investigations.

Responsibilities

Fleet-Wide Behavioral Defense & Control Engineering:

• Engineer, deploy, and maintain Next-Gen Antivirus (NGAV) and Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR/XDR) agents (e.g., CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne) across hundreds of thousands of heterogeneous endpoints.
• Implement active behavioral protections against zero-day malware, living-off-the-land binaries (LotLBs), fileless execution, and credential dumping.
• Application Owner & End-User Engagement (Business Impact Management):
• Serve as the primary technical partner to application owners and business units, establishing baseline behavior profiles to minimize false positives, performance degradation, or operational downtime across critical retail, logistics, and supply chain applications.
• Manage allowlisting, exception workflows, and phased ring deployments (canary/pilot/production) to ensure silent, high-efficacy protection without disrupting day-to-day warehouse or logistics operations.

SOC & IT Operations Event Investigation Support:

• Act as endpoint security escalation lead for SOC analysts during high-severity threat detection and response events.
• Act as endpoint operations escalation lead for IT administrators during high-impact event investigation and remediation efforts.
• Perform advanced host forensics, process-tree reconstruction, memory analysis, and script-based live remediation (e.g., host isolation, automated artifact collection, registry rollbacks).

Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Workload Protection:

• Extend endpoint security standards across private data center virtualization layers (VMware/Nutanix) and ephemera multi-cloud infrastructure (EC2, Azure VMs, Compute Engine, containerized hosts).
• Control Efficacy & Continuous Validation:
• Continuously measure and test security control efficacy using automated attack simulation (BAS) tools and Purple Team exercises.
• Track and report on agent health, tamper-resistance, telemetry pipeline integrity, and coverage metrics aligned with enterprise asset management systems.

Qualifications

Technical Skills

• EDR/XDR Engineering: Expert-level proficiency administering enterprise-scale endpoint platforms across Windows, macOS, Linux distributions, and container runtime environments.
• Behavioral Analysis & Threat Hunting: Deep mastery of process lineage, behavioral IOAs (Indicators of Attack), Sysmon telemetry, and detection authoring using query languages such as SQL, KQL (Kusto Query Language), Splunk SPL, or YARA.
• Hybrid Infrastructure & OS Internals: Deep understanding of Windows/Linux kernel architectures, API hooking, hypervisor isolation, and multi-cloud workload identity integrations.
• Automation & Scripting: Strong programming/scripting abilities in PowerShell, Python, or Bash to orchestrate fleet-wide remediations and automate policy compliance at scale.
• Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Fluency applying appropriate AI/ML technologies and analytics platforms (Splunk, Databricks, Elastic) to streamline and/or automate activities including but not limited to research, developing documentation, and supporting development of executive communications. Fluency applying appropriate AI/ML technologies to automate security activities to improve timeliness or full automation of event response activities.
• Stakeholder Empathy & Impact Analysis: Proven ability to balance stringent security controls with business operational velocity, ensuring minimal disruption to end-user productivity and mission-critical COTS/proprietary software.
• Crisis Leadership & Composure: Capable of methodically triaging active enterprise threats under pressure and articulating complex host-based attacks to executive leadership.
• Operational Scale Management: Mindset geared toward "Infrastructure-as-Code" and policy automation rather than manual device-by-device intervention.

Experience:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in technical cybersecurity engineering or infrastructure security roles.
• At least 3–5 years directly engineering and administering enterprise-grade EDR/XDR platforms across 50,000+ endpoints in a distributed hybrid environment.
• Demonstrated track record supporting active SOC investigations and collaborating cross-functionally with system owners in large-scale enterprise environments.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or equivalent practical enterprise experience.

Preferred Certifications

• GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), or GCFA (Forensic Analyst).
• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional).
• Specialized Vendor Engineering Credentials (e.g., CrowdStrike Certified Falcon Administrator/Hunter, Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate / SC-200).

****Candidates must be able to obtain a Postal Sensitive Clearance (US Citizenship or Green Card required). Additionally, candidates must not have traveled outside of the USA for a combined period not to exceed 6 months within the last 5 years.***