Security Remediation Engineer: Incident Fixes & Automation

International Business Machines Corporation

Herndon (VA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

IBM Infrastructure & Technology is seeking a Remediation Engineer to drive technical remediation across enterprise infrastructure, cloud, identity, and applications. You will partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to implement fixes, harden configurations, and deploy security controls while promoting scalable remediation patterns.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, collaboration with security architecture, and the use of automation to reduce risk.

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience operating and securing production technology environments.
  • Experience with remediation activities including patching and hardening.
  • Ability to work independently in fast-moving environments.
  • Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience with cloud platforms and security tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Support remediation efforts across infrastructure, cloud, identity, and applications.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to implement remediation plans.
  • Drive secure configurations across platforms.
  • Create remediation guidance and security best practices documentation.
  • Develop automation to accelerate remediation at scale.

Skills

Remediation engineering
Incident response
Cloud engineering
System hardening
Automation tooling
DevOps / SRE
Networking
Security governance

Tools

Python
Ansible
Terraform
Kubernetes

Job description

IBM Infrastructure & Technology is seeking a Remediation Engineer to drive technical remediation across enterprise infrastructure, cloud, identity, and applications. You will partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to implement fixes, harden configurations, and deploy security controls while promoting scalable remediation patterns.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, collaboration with security architecture, and the use of automation to reduce risk.

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