Senior Cybersecurity Engineer — Cloud & AI (Remote)

Driven Brands Inc.; Clayton (NC); On-site; USD 91,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Driven Brands is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to protect people, data, and operations from modern threats, including AI-enabled attacks. You will act as a technical authority across threat defense, security engineering, and governance, partnering with IT, Legal, and business leaders to reduce risk.

You will design, implement, and maintain secure systems across endpoints, cloud, and applications, lead incident response, and drive security best practices and compliance across the

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years in cybersecurity engineering, cybersecurity operations, or incident response.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience engineering, securing, and administering enterprise technology (endpoints, networks, identity, cloud, email, and applications) and cybersecurity platforms, along with incident response experience.
• Working knowledge of NIST CSF, CIS, or ISO 27001.
• One or more certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, or Security+.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigation and containment of phishing, account compromise, and endpoint and network threats.
• Monitor alerts and investigate anomalous identity and email activity.
• Develop detections and response playbooks against emerging threats, including AI-enabled attacks.
• Architect and engineer cybersecurity solutions across endpoints, networks, identity, email and collaboration, cloud, applications, data, AI systems, and infrastructure.
• Design and govern identity and access controls with identity and infrastructure teams.
• Secure cloud and hybrid infrastructure through configuration standards and guardrails.
• Automate cybersecurity controls, deployments, and workflows to reduce manual effort.
• Drive vulnerability and exposure reduction with owners, prioritizing by business impact.
• Assess AI and software vendors for cybersecurity, data protection, and governance risk.
• Provide technical evidence and input for audits, framework maturity reviews, cybersecurity standards.
• Manage cybersecurity vendor relationships, renewals, and roadmap input.

Skills

Cybersecurity engineering

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Threat hunting

Security analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Python

Cloud security platforms

Digital forensics tools

Job description

Driven Brands is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to protect people, data, and operations from modern threats, including AI-enabled attacks. You will act as a technical authority across threat defense, security engineering, and governance, partnering with IT, Legal, and business leaders to reduce risk.

You will design, implement, and maintain secure systems across endpoints, cloud, and applications, lead incident response, and drive security best practices and compliance across the