Security Engineering Associate: Threat Hunting & Cloud

The Goldman Sachs Group; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in Dallas, TX seeks an Associate, Security Engineering to drive security by design across the SDLC. You will assess business projects, implement controls, and guide engineering teams on secure architectures across on‑prem and cloud environments.

Responsibilities include threat hunting, developing detections for SIEM/EDR, and delivering insights to senior stakeholders. Collaboration with global teams and a focus on APT protection are essential.

Qualifications

• Design and audit technical security controls for enterprise-scale on-prem and cloud architectures.
• Perform structured attack surface analysis and threat modeling.
• Lead security risk assessments aligned with NIST CSF or CIS Controls.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to Shift Left security in SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Perform security assessments of business initiatives and technologies to drive adoption of security controls.
• Advise on engineering solutions to protect firm networks and cloud architectures (AWS/Azure).
• Review security controls across systems to identify gaps and drive mitigations.
• Collaborate with global teams to enhance detection with logging telemetry and SIEM/EDR tuning.
• Conduct threat hunting missions using threat intel and telemetry analysis.
• Develop detection strategies and incident response playbooks to defend against APTs.
• Present forensic analyses and post-mortems to senior stakeholders and engineers.
• Lead deployment of security sensors and logging configurations for full visibility to SOC.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

Security architecture

Threat intelligence

SDLC security

Security controls

Collaboration

Education

Master's degree in Cyber Security

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security

Tools

AWS

Azure

SIEM

EDR

MISP

Job description

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in Dallas, TX seeks an Associate, Security Engineering to drive security by design across the SDLC. You will assess business projects, implement controls, and guide engineering teams on secure architectures across on‑prem and cloud environments.

Responsibilities include threat hunting, developing detections for SIEM/EDR, and delivering insights to senior stakeholders. Collaboration with global teams and a focus on APT protection are essential.