Senior Cybersecurity Engineer: Threat Detection & Cloud Security

Georgia System Operations Corporation; Tucker (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) Match

Parental Leave

Educational Assistance

Annual Performance Bonus

Paid Time Off

Volunteer Time Off

Job summary

Georgia System Operations Corporation (GSOC) is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to lead advanced security engineering, monitoring, vulnerability management, and incident response across enterprise environments. You will act as a senior technical resource, mentoring staff, coordinating with infrastructure and application teams, and driving risk reduction through practical security controls and blue team activities.

This role is primarily office-based in Tucker, GA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• Ideally 8+ years of experience in cyber or information security; twelve or more years may be considered.
• Expert‑level knowledge of cybersecurity architecture, security engineering principles, enterprise technologies, and industry best practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem‑solving, and documentation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead cybersecurity engineering, threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response, and enterprise security improvement efforts.
• Serve as a technical SME across cybersecurity disciplines for internal teams, vendors, and partners.
• Lead implementation, administration, and optimization of SIEM, EDR, security monitoring, and other platforms.
• Develop and maintain detection rules, alerting logic, dashboards, and threat intelligence integrations.
• Conduct threat hunting, analyze indicators of compromise, and support risk reduction.
• Lead incident investigations, coordination, root‑cause analysis, and action planning.
• Manage vulnerability scanning, remediation prioritization, validation testing, metrics, and risk reporting.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise security controls and blue team hardening.
• Implement and maintain security controls in Azure and cloud environments.
• Lead endpoint security activities and collaboration with Infrastructure/EUC teams.
• Review new technologies for security requirements and alignment with regulations.
• Develop and maintain cybersecurity documentation and program materials.

Skills

Cybersecurity architecture

Security engineering

Threat detection

Incident response

Leadership

Communication

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Kubernetes

Docker

VMware

Cloud security platforms

Job description

Georgia System Operations Corporation (GSOC) is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to lead advanced security engineering, monitoring, vulnerability management, and incident response across enterprise environments. You will act as a senior technical resource, mentoring staff, coordinating with infrastructure and application teams, and driving risk reduction through practical security controls and blue team activities.

This role is primarily office-based in Tucker, GA.