Hybrid Cybersecurity Operations Engineer

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in Arlington, VA is seeking a cybersecurity professional to support the Cybersecurity Operations and Engineering team, monitor security events, coordinate incident response, and apply operational security practices with a hybrid schedule allowing work from home up to 2 days per week.

The role emphasizes monitoring tools, alert investigations, and collaboration with internal teams to deploy security solutions, with required 3+ years of security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, or a related field preferred; equivalent technical training, certifications, or 3-4 years of relevant information technology experience will also be considered
• 3+ years of experience defining, implementing, and maintaining complex security infrastructure applications, including: Using ServiceNow ITSM or similar ticketing workflows to document, track, and resolve security-related work.
• Certifications Required: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent
• Certifications Preferred: GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC), GIAC Security Incident Handler (GCIH), or CompTIA CySA+ (Cybersecurity Analyst)

Responsibilities

• Monitors, triages, and investigates security tools, critical applications, and systems for suspicious activity, potential malicious behavior, security exploits, and data breaches.
• Provides backup and rotational 24/7 on-call support for security monitoring and incident response activities to meet response-time service levels and support real-time monitoring when required.
• Reviews, classifies, correlates, and analyzes security alerts and logs from SIEM platforms, servers, applications, endpoints, file systems, and network devices to identify threats and determine risk, severity, and appropriate response actions.
• Escalates and responds to security events according to risk and established response procedures.
• Configures, maintains, and tunes security monitoring, alerting, and operational security tools, including SIEM, EDR, cloud security, and other monitoring platforms.
• Deploys, tests, evaluates, and implements security solutions and infrastructure in partnership with internal technology teams, external vendors, and suppliers.
• Ability to report to the office when required

Skills

Security monitoring

Incident response

Threat detection

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, or related field

Tools

ServiceNow ITSM

SIEM

EDR

Cloud security

Job description

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in Arlington, VA is seeking a cybersecurity professional to support the Cybersecurity Operations and Engineering team, monitor security events, coordinate incident response, and apply operational security practices with a hybrid schedule allowing work from home up to 2 days per week.

The role emphasizes monitoring tools, alert investigations, and collaboration with internal teams to deploy security solutions, with required 3+ years of security