Senior Cyber Defense Engineer - Threat Intel & Automation

NOVA Biomedical GmbH; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Nova Biomedical Corporation is seeking a Senior Cyber Defense Engineer to strengthen threat intelligence, incident response, and detection engineering; you’ll build automation-supported security operations and work with cross-functional teams in a hybrid Waltham setting.

The role emphasizes analytical thinking, investigation, and engineering discipline to mature cyber defense capabilities and orchestrate AI-assisted security processes across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in cyber threat intelligence, investigations, security operations, incident response, detection engineering, or related disciplines.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience producing intelligence products, investigative reports, operational briefings, or security communications.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated curiosity, ownership, and desire to continuously learn and develop.

Responsibilities

• Analyze emerging threat activity, adversary techniques, and intelligence sources.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen defensive capabilities and reduce organizational risk.
• Translate threat intelligence into actionable operational and engineering outcomes.
• Support continuous improvement of cyber defense readiness and effectiveness.
• Develop and refine detection capabilities across enterprise technology environments.
• Improve security visibility through telemetry, analytics, and monitoring enhancements.
• Advance detection quality, coverage, and operational effectiveness.
• Contribute to scalable detection engineering practices and standards.
• Lead or support the investigation of security events, incidents, and suspicious activity.
• Coordinate response activities across technical and business stakeholders.
• Support containment, recovery, and post-incident improvement efforts.
• Ensure investigations are conducted in a consistent, defensible, and well-documented manner.
• Produce intelligence reporting, threat briefings, and operational insights.
• Provide actionable information to support security and business decision-making.
• Improve organizational awareness of cyber risks and emerging threats.
• Contribute to strategic and operational security communications.
• Support investigations involving employee, compliance, legal, privacy, and security concerns.
• Partner with business stakeholders on sensitive and confidential matters.
• Maintain appropriate investigative documentation, evidence handling, and confidentiality practices.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of investigative processes and standards.
• Improve the maturity, consistency, and scalability of cyber defense operations.
• Contribute to operational standards, procedures, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen resilience, efficiency, and security outcomes.
• Support implementation of new capabilities and operational improvements.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort through engineering and automation.
• Contribute to workflow automation, orchestration, and intelligent operations capabilities.
• Leverage analytics to improve operational performance and decision-making.
• Support the evolution of AI-assisted cyber defense capabilities and processes.

Skills

Threat intelligence

Investigations

Security operations

Incident response

Detection engineering

Operational analytics

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity

Job description

Nova Biomedical Corporation is seeking a Senior Cyber Defense Engineer to strengthen threat intelligence, incident response, and detection engineering; you’ll build automation-supported security operations and work with cross-functional teams in a hybrid Waltham setting.

The role emphasizes analytical thinking, investigation, and engineering discipline to mature cyber defense capabilities and orchestrate AI-assisted security processes across the organization.