Senior Security Engineer — Corporate Security & Automation

Cogent-Security; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cogent is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, Corporate Security to own the security of internal systems, endpoints, and enterprise tooling. You'll harden the systems our team relies on every day: laptops, identity, SaaS, the corporate environment - and build the controls and automation that keep us safe as we grow.

Ultimately you'll be responsible for securing our workflows and the systems that run the company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and managing corporate security / IT security programs.
• Strong hands-on engineer who produces vs. just manages process.
• Deep experience hardening endpoints and enterprise systems, with solid OS internals knowledge (macOS, Windows, Linux).
• Experience across CorpSec domains: endpoint security, corporate identity, SaaS security, device trust, Zero Trust.
• Automation ability to build and maintain tooling (e.g. Python, or similar) - you look for smart and secure ways to automate your work to scale yourself.
• Able to flex up and down: strategic when it matters, in the weeds when it counts.
• Comfortable being an early security hire at a startup - high ownership, ambiguity, and direct impact.

Responsibilities

• Harden and manage endpoints across the fleet (macOS, and others as needed): baseline hardening, device posture, EDR coverage and tuning
• Own corporate identity and access: SSO/MFA, least-privilege access, and identity hygiene across our SaaS stack
• Secure and standardize our enterprise systems and SaaS environment; drive Zero Trust / device-trust patterns
• Build automation and tooling to enforce security configuration and scale controls without slowing the team down
• Handle enterprise security operations - detection, monitoring, and response for corporate systems
• Serve as the internal security SME on corporate systems and workflow decisions, and as an early user of what we build

Skills

Corporate security

Endpoint security

Identity & access management

SaaS security

Zero Trust

Automation with Python

Job description

Cogent is hiring a Senior Security Engineer, Corporate Security to own the security of internal systems, endpoints, and enterprise tooling. You'll harden the systems our team relies on every day: laptops, identity, SaaS, the corporate environment - and build the controls and automation that keep us safe as we grow.

Ultimately you'll be responsible for securing our workflows and the systems that run the company.