Hybrid Cloud Security Engineer | Defender & SIEM Expert

Sheppard Pratt Careers; Towson (MD); On-site; USD 88,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement

Medical benefits

403b retirement match

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Sheppard Pratt is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer for an on-site role in Towson, MD. You will implement and enhance cybersecurity technologies across on-prem and cloud environments, working with IT and applications teams to mitigate risks and strengthen incident response capabilities.

The role requires hands-on experience with Defender, Sentinel, and Purview, plus strong scripting skills and a security-first mindset to support the organization’s multi-year cybersecurity roadmap.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, IT, CS or related field.
• Four to six years of progressive cybersecurity engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience configuring or supporting security controls.

Responsibilities

• Implement, configure, support, and maintain the organization’s cybersecurity toolset (Defender, Sentinel, Purview).
• Support initiatives from the three-year cybersecurity roadmap with practical technical solutions.
• Build and maintain security automations, detections, and incident response playbooks.
• Contribute to security standards, configurations, and engineering patterns for IT Infra, Operations, and Applications teams.
• Provide hands-on support for on-premises and cloud security controls in a hybrid AD environment (Azure).
• Collaborate with IT Infrastructure, Operations and Applications teams to embed security into designs and migrations.
• Evaluate tooling and architectures against best practices; recommend improvements.
• Support incident response activities including triage, containment, remediation, and post-incident improvements.

Skills

PowerShell

Python

KQL

Endpoint security

Identity security

Threat detection

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, IT, CS, or related field

CISSP or equivalent certification

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Purview

Azure AD / Entra ID

Job description

Sheppard Pratt is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer for an on-site role in Towson, MD. You will implement and enhance cybersecurity technologies across on-prem and cloud environments, working with IT and applications teams to mitigate risks and strengthen incident response capabilities.

The role requires hands-on experience with Defender, Sentinel, and Purview, plus strong scripting skills and a security-first mindset to support the organization’s multi-year cybersecurity roadmap.