Senior Cybersecurity Engineer: SOC & Threat Intel Lead

DIVERGENT; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Paid time off

Parental leave

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Learning reimbursement

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Divergent in California seeks a Cybersecurity Engineer with SOC experience to lead threat analysis across IT and OT in a federal contractor environment. You will tune detections, guide incident response, and implement security baselines.

Join a fast‑paced, mission‑driven team offering equity, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for growth while protecting critical systems across our enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity or a related field with 3+ years of industry experience (5+ years can substitute for the degree).
• Expertise in Cybersecurity Analytics.
• Professional experience in a SOC or similar cybersecurity services environment.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities with good user support.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and willingness to work overtime including weekends and overnight.
• At least one DoD baseline security certification such as CISSP, Security+, or A+Sec, or the ability to rapidly obtain one.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze threats across the enterprise.
• Tune SIEM detections, develop correlation searches, IDS rules, and firewall logic.
• Be the technical escalation backstop for complex cybersecurity incidents.
• Implement STIGs and other security baselines to systems, architecture, and applications.
• Conduct post-incident reviews to identify gaps and define security improvements.
• Provide proactive threat research and regular Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence reporting.
• Develop, maintain, and test an incident response plan and playbooks with ISSM; conduct security assessments with remediation strategies.

Skills

Cybersecurity analytics

SOC experience

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Overtime flexibility

DoD cert readiness

Education

BS in Cybersecurity or related field

Job description

Divergent in California seeks a Cybersecurity Engineer with SOC experience to lead threat analysis across IT and OT in a federal contractor environment. You will tune detections, guide incident response, and implement security baselines.

Join a fast‑paced, mission‑driven team offering equity, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for growth while protecting critical systems across our enterprise.