Security-Focused Network Engineer: Incident Response

Jobtailor; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior security engineer in New Jersey to identify technology gaps and lead the design, architecture, and implementation of security solutions.

You will mentor junior engineers, produce documentation, and partner with Operations, Engineering, and Planning to embed secure patterns into deployments. This role demands hands-on incident response leadership and proactive threat hunting, with clear communication to internal and external audiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant experience, demonstrated through work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Ability to write complex, optimized Splunk SPL searches, including macros, data models, and lookups.
• Knowledge of incident response lifecycles such as NIST or SANS.
• Experience designing, testing, and maintaining SOAR automation playbooks.
• Experience with risk-based alerting, notable events, asset/identity correlation, and correlation searches.
• Security certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CISSP, CCIP, CISM, CCSP, OSCP, or CEH.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management solutions
• Experience with network protocols and information security
• Networking certifications such as PCNSE, CCNP, or CCNA
• Experience with networks, 4G/5G wireless network functions, OpenStack, or Kubernetes
• Experience with Python or Ansible
• UNIX or Linux systems engineering expertise
• Experience with encryption for data in transit and at rest
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• Effective written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills
• Must be within commuting distance of one of the listed office locations
• Minimum three days per week in the office under hybrid work policies

Responsibilities

• Identify technology gaps and lead the design, architecture, and implementation of security solutions
• Create formal guidelines, policies, and procedures
• Implement strategic solutions in a highly scalable environment
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, and Planning organizations to embed secure design patterns into deployments and major changes
• Work independently on strategic technical challenges
• Mentor junior engineers and delegate technical documentation and tasks
• Communicate complex technical concepts to internal and external audiences
• Lead network security incident response, including triage, containment, eradication, and recovery
• Build and refine incident playbooks and response runbooks for ransomware, phishing, insider threat, DDoS, and other scenarios
• Provide escalation support and expert analysis during active security investigations
• Conduct root cause analysis and produce incident reports covering timeline, impact, evidence, and remediation recommendations
• Perform proactive threat hunting across identity, endpoint, and network telemetry
• Create and tune SIEM threat detections to improve alert fidelity and reduce false positives
• Improve network visibility and telemetry collection
• Perform security control assessments and address gaps found during incidents or threat hunts

Skills

Splunk SPL searches

SOAR automation playbooks

Incident response lifecycle knowledge

Threat hunting and telemetry

Identity and access management

Python

Ansible

UNIX/Linux systems engineering

Network security

Encryption in transit and at rest

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Security certifications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Splunk

SOAR solutions

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior security engineer in New Jersey to identify technology gaps and lead the design, architecture, and implementation of security solutions.

You will mentor junior engineers, produce documentation, and partner with Operations, Engineering, and Planning to embed secure patterns into deployments. This role demands hands-on incident response leadership and proactive threat hunting, with clear communication to internal and external audiences.