Threat Cybersecurity Engineer — Hybrid, Threat Hunting & IR

Exiger; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Exiger is seeking a Threat Cybersecurity Engineer to enhance security operations across a growing technology environment. This hands-on role emphasizes threat detection, hunting, incident response, and scalable control implementations in collaboration with security, IT, engineering, cloud, and compliance teams.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in security engineering, SIEM and EDR, and a track record of reducing risk through sophisticated detections and response workflows.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in security engineering, security operations, incident response, threat detection, or a related discipline.
• Advanced experience with endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, SIEM administration, and security investigations.
• Experience conducting structured threat hunts and mapping attacker behavior to MITRE ATT&CK.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize endpoint detection, SIEM, and security-monitoring capabilities.
• Monitor, triage, and investigate threats across endpoint, identity, cloud, application, and network environments.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting using threat intelligence, behavioral analytics, and attacker techniques.
• Develop and tune detection rules, alerts, dashboards, and automated response workflows aligned with MITRE ATT&CK.
• Identify and prioritize exposed assets, vulnerabilities, and other security weaknesses.
• Coordinate incident containment, remediation, recovery, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.
• Maintain investigation playbooks, procedures, metrics, and executive reporting.
• Participate in the security operations on-call rotation as required.

Skills

Threat hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

SIEM

EDR

Incident response

Threat detection

Cloud security

Endpoint security

Tools

MITRE ATT&CK

Job description

Exiger is seeking a Threat Cybersecurity Engineer to enhance security operations across a growing technology environment. This hands-on role emphasizes threat detection, hunting, incident response, and scalable control implementations in collaboration with security, IT, engineering, cloud, and compliance teams.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience in security engineering, SIEM and EDR, and a track record of reducing risk through sophisticated detections and response workflows.