Security Engineer

Cyera; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Cyera is seeking a Security Engineer to join our agentic SOC where you will grow beyond traditional analyst duties and dive into security engineering, automation, cloud security, detection engineering, and AI-assisted security operations.

You will help build and operate a modern SOC that uses automation, AI-assisted investigations, and agent-based workflows to improve detection, triage, response, and security visibility.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of cybersecurity experience and a strong SOC foundation.
• Hands-on AWS knowledge, Python proficiency, and experience with SIEM data and log pipelines.
• Familiarity with agentic concepts and AI-assisted security operations.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve a modern SOC with automation, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted investigation.
• Design, configure, and maintain log ingestion and SIEM workflows from AWS, applications, and infrastructure.
• Develop and tune detections, alert logic, dashboards, and playbooks for security operations.
• Assist with incident investigations, containment, remediation, and post-incident improvements.
• Collaborate with security, cloud, IT, and engineering teams to improve visibility and reduce risk.

Skills

Security engineering

Python

AWS

SIEM

Automation

Detection engineering

Cloud security

Incident response

AI-assisted security

Agentic SOC

Log pipelines

Education

AWS entry-level certification (Cloud Practitioner)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CDK

Job description

• Join our team as a Security Engineer working within an agentic SOC environment. This role is designed for someone who is ready to grow beyond traditional analyst responsibilities and move deeper into security engineering, automation, cloud security, detection engineering, and AI-assisted security operations


• You will help build, operate, and improve a modern SOC that uses automation, agentic workflows, AI-assisted investigation, and security engineering practices to improve detection, triage, response, and overall security visibility. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving technical problems, improving systems, and building security capabilities rather than only monitoring alerts


• Security Engineering: Build, maintain, and improve security workflows, integrations, detection processes, and operational tooling within an agentic SOC


• Agentic SOC Operations: Work with automation, AI-assisted workflows, and agent-based capabilities that support alert triage, investigation, enrichment, and response


• SIEM Log Flow Development: Help design, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot log ingestion flows into the SIEM from AWS, applications, infrastructure, endpoint tools, and security platforms


• Detection Engineering: Create, tune, and maintain detection rules, alert logic, dashboards, playbooks, and investigation workflows


• Python Automation: Develop Python scripts and automations for alert enrichment, data processing, reporting, workflow improvement, and security operations support


• Cloud Security Monitoring: Support cloud security logging, monitoring, IAM reviews, and cloud detection use cases


• SOC Operations: Review, analyze, and correlate security alerts and logs to identify suspicious activity and support investigations


• Incident Response Support: Assist with security event investigations, escalation, containment, remediation, and post-incident improvements


• Process Improvement: Help improve SOC processes, playbooks, detection coverage, documentation, and response workflows


• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with security, cloud, IT, and engineering teams to improve visibility, reduce risk, and strengthen security operations

The ideal candidate has 2–3 years of cybersecurity experience, a strong SOC foundation, hands-on AWS knowledge, Python proficiency, and experience working with SIEM data and log pipelines. We are looking for someone motivated, curious, and eager to grow into a stronger security engineer within a modern, engineering-driven SOC modelAWS Certification: AWS entry-level certification required at minimum, such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner. AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or AWS Security Specialty is a plusAWS Knowledge: Working knowledge of AWS services, cloud security fundamentals, logging, monitoring, IAM, and basic cloud architecturePython Proficiency: Hands-on proficiency with Python for scripting, automation, data processing, security tooling, or workflow developmentDetection Knowledge: Ability to help develop, tune, and improve detections based on logs, threat behavior, and operational needsLog Pipeline Experience: Experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting log flows from applications, infrastructure, AWS services, endpoint tools, or security platforms into a SIEMAgentic SOC Familiarity: Familiarity with agentic concepts, agentic frameworks, AI-assisted workflows, autonomous or semi-autonomous agents, and practical security operations use casesSIEM Experience: Experience working with SIEM platforms, including log ingestion, parsing, alerting, dashboards, and detection logicSOC Foundation: Strong understanding of SOC workflows, alert triage, investigation, escalation, and incident response processesExperience: 2–3 years of experience in cybersecurity, SOC operations, security engineering, cloud security, detection engineering, or incident responseInfrastructure as Code: Familiarity with Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or similar toolsDetection Languages: Experience with Sigma, SPL, KQL, SQL, YARA, or similar detection/query languagesAgentic/AI Security Use Cases: Hands-on exposure to LLMs, AI agents, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted security operations