Senior Cyber Defense Platforms Architect

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Cambridge, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Cambridge, MA is seeking an Associate Director (Staff Engineer) to own the defense technology stack end-to-end, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, email security, and phishing, with detection content, automation, and tooling central to the role.

This senior individual contributor position has enterprise-wide impact, requiring leadership across IT, infrastructure, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and analysts.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in security engineering, security operations, or detection engineering, with demonstrated ownership of defense and security platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience architecting and administering SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, or email security and anti-phishing platforms.
• Experience mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK and building detection content at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the deployment, configuration, administration, and lifecycle of defense platforms including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, email security, and phishing
• Define the platform roadmap: evaluate, deploy, integrate, and rationalize security technologies to maximize defensive coverage and operational efficiency
• Engineer and maintain security data pipelines across the enterprise: log source onboarding, normalization, enrichment, retention, and cost management
• Own the detection content lifecycle end-to-end: development, testing, tuning, versioning, and retirement of rules and analytics across all platforms
• Establish detection-as-code practices, including version control, peer review, CI/CD deployment, and automated validation of content
• Map detection coverage to MITRE ATT&CK, identify gaps, and partner with threat intel, IR, and offensive security to convert findings into durable detections
• Design and build SOAR playbooks and workflow automation that reduce manual analyst effort and accelerate triage and response
• Build internal tooling, integrations, and APIs that connect security platforms to each other and to enterprise systems
• Set the standards for how Cyber Defense builds, deploys, and operates its technology, and serve as the technical authority for the defense technology domain
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives across IT, infrastructure, and engineering teams, and mentor engineers and analysts across the broader team

Skills

Security engineering

Security operations

Detection engineering

Automation

Python/Go/PowerShell

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR

DLP

Email security

Job description

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Cambridge, MA is seeking an Associate Director (Staff Engineer) to own the defense technology stack end-to-end, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, email security, and phishing, with detection content, automation, and tooling central to the role.

This senior individual contributor position has enterprise-wide impact, requiring leadership across IT, infrastructure, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and analysts.