Senior SOC Engineer - AI-Driven Detection & Response

Landstar; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Landstar is seeking a senior SOC engineer to lead and optimize security monitoring and incident response across the enterprise. This role focuses on designing use cases for 24x7 monitoring, implementing AI-enhanced detections, and driving automation within the SOAR/SIEM stack.

The candidate will mentor engineers, develop containment strategies, and collaborate with IT and security teams to improve controls and metrics while aligning with MITRE ATT&CK and NIST frameworks.

Qualifications

• 7 years of SOC engineering and security administration experience.
• 1 year of experience using copilots or assistants to query logs, threat intelligence and/or multiple data sources.
• High School diploma or GED.

Responsibilities

• Be a subject matter expert for team of engineers designing use cases for monitoring and responding 24x7x365.
• Engineer and implement solutions to enhance the SOC’s ability to detect and respond to incidents.
• Lead design, implementation and maintenance of security infrastructure technology stack.
• Develop containment and remediation strategies and coordination across security and technical teams.
• Work alongside teams to engineer comprehensive controls, auditing and monitoring strategy.
• Automate repetitive tasks in SOAR environment with ML/AI to drive efficiencies toward more advanced work.
• Implement AI-assisted threat detections aligned to MITRE ATT&CK Framework to improve operations.
• Build or modify AI-enhanced scripts for detection engineering, log enrichment or threat hunting.
• Be familiar with prompting, AI agents, copilots and MCP solutions to analyze events across data sources.
• Validate data pipelines with AI systems are securely managed and monitored.
• Partner with analysts, incident response, IT, business units and management to improve monitoring, workflow and response.
• Validate effective SecOps controls are implemented and maintained and adapt to threat landscape.
• Refine and maintain playbooks, policies, procedures and guidelines and align with industry best practices.
• Support monitoring and response metrics, KPIs and SLOs for security events and incidents.
• Engage in tabletop exercises to test, identify gaps, improve skills and enhance communication.
• Engineer improvements from tabletop, vulnerability and penetration testing assessments.
• Examine log source data across endpoints, databases, applications, identity, network, mobile and cloud.
• Upon request, report on the state of the SOC to cybersecurity leaders and stakeholders.

Skills

SOAR

SIEM

Threat intelligence

Identity

EDR/XDR

Windows

Linux

Python

Bash

PowerShell

MITRE ATT&CK alignment

NIST AI RMF

NIST CSF

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, or engineering

Security certifications: GSOC, GCIH, GDAT, CISSP

Tools

Copilots for log queries

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Landstar is seeking a senior SOC engineer to lead and optimize security monitoring and incident response across the enterprise. This role focuses on designing use cases for 24x7 monitoring, implementing AI-enhanced detections, and driving automation within the SOAR/SIEM stack.

The candidate will mentor engineers, develop containment strategies, and collaborate with IT and security teams to improve controls and metrics while aligning with MITRE ATT&CK and NIST frameworks.