SOC Engineer III

PowerToFly; Alabama; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice in Huntsville, AL seeks a Security Engineer III to support the OT Monitoring program. You will monitor events, triage alerts, and analyze threats across AMC networks, systems, and mission data, contributing to detection tuning and runbook improvements.

The role requires an active Secret clearance, travel about 25%, and the ability to work onsite five days a week in a dynamic SOC environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• Active Secret security clearance required
• IAT Level II certification or higher preferred
• 3+ years of analytics use case development, enterprise security architecture, network analysis, or cause analysis

Responsibilities

• Monitor security events across AMC networks, systems, and mission data using SOC platforms and tools
• Triaging alerts, validating threats, and investigating security events across data sources
• Analyze and correlate telemetry from logs and network data to identify suspicious activity and support incident response
• Execute SOC playbooks, support root cause analysis, and document findings and indicators of compromise
• Assist with tuning detection content, improving runbooks, and tracking adversary tactics and procedures

Skills

Independent work

Communication

Attention to detail

Relationship building

Project leadership

Multi-tasking

Interpersonal skills

Meeting deadlines

Guidance to others

Education

Bachelor's degree

Active Secret clearance

IAT Level II Certification

Job description

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Deloitte is seeking a Security Engineer III to support the our Client's Operational Technology (OT) Monitoring program. In this role, you will help monitor security events, triage alerts, and analyze potential threats across AMC networks, systems, and mission data. You will investigate activity across multiple platforms, correlate telemetry from log sources and network sensors, and support timely reporting of cyber risk to mission stakeholders. The role also includes contributing to detection tuning, runbook improvements, and threat-informed monitoring in a dynamic operational environment.

Work You'll Do

As a Security Engineer III on the Defense & Resilience cyber team, you will be responsible for

• Monitoring security events across AMC networks, systems, and mission data using SOC platforms and network security tools
• Triaging alerts, validating potential threats, and investigating security events across multiple data sources and sensor technologies
• Analyzing and correlating telemetry from logs, network traffic, and security tools to identify suspicious activity and support incident response
• Executing SOC playbooks, supporting root cause analysis, and documenting findings, indicators of compromise, and recommended detection improvements
• Assisting with tuning detection content, improving runbooks and use cases, and tracking adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures to strengthen threat coverage

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Cyber Defense & Resilience offering assists clients in defending against advanced threats by transforming security operations, monitoring technology, data analytics, and threat intelligence. Helps manage and protect dynamic attack surfaces and provides rapid crisis and cyber incident response, ensuring clients can be ready for, respond to, and recover from business disruptions.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Active Secret security clearance required
• Ability to travel 25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Must be local to Huntsville, AL and able to come onsite 5 days a week.
• IAT Level II Certification or higher required
• 3+ years of required with the following:
• Analytics Use Case Development
• Enterprise Security Architecture
• Network analysis
• Cause Analysis

Preferred:

• 3+ of the following experience required:
• Automation Essentials
• DRAGOS
• SQL