Senior Security Data Engineer: Cyber Analytics & Response

Truist; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) plan

Vacation and sick days

Paid holidays

Job summary

Truist is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design and implement advanced cybersecurity data solutions across diverse IT environments. You will drive data acquisition, analysis, and automation to identify risks and support incident response.

The role requires 7+ years in security engineering, deep cybersecurity knowledge, and experience with threat modeling and lifecycle security practices. Collaboration with product, engineering, and operations is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Deep knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements advanced cybersecurity data solutions that identify risks and guide response and security assurance efforts.
• Performs and enhances data acquisition and analysis to uncover and remediate significant vulnerabilities.
• Integrates data from various information security technologies across environments, defining automatable scenarios and processes.
• Serves as a key technical escalation point for challenging security data issues, diagnosing recurring problems and creating reusable solutions.
• Assesses emerging security threats, tools, and architectural options, and provides recommendations shaping plans and goals.
• Collaborates with product, engineering and operations teams to apply modern security practices in the security development lifecycle.
• Develops and maintains security baselines, guardrails, and control patterns for systems and applications.
• Leads major incident response and forensic activities, coordinating tasks and improving playbooks.
• Provides guidance and training to other security engineers to raise team capability.

Skills

Security engineering

Lifecycle security

Threat modeling

Penetration testing

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/SE

Tools

Azure Data Explorer

.NET

Job description

Truist is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to design and implement advanced cybersecurity data solutions across diverse IT environments. You will drive data acquisition, analysis, and automation to identify risks and support incident response.

The role requires 7+ years in security engineering, deep cybersecurity knowledge, and experience with threat modeling and lifecycle security practices. Collaboration with product, engineering, and operations is essential.