Threat Defense Engineer — MSSP SIEM & EDR Expert

Fortified Health Security; Brentwood (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortified Health Security in Brentwood, TN seeks a Threat Defense Engineer to design, implement, and optimize security technologies across SIEM, EDR/MDR, IoMT, and cloud platforms. The role emphasizes security platform health, telemetry quality, and automation to improve service delivery for multiple clients.

Responsibilities include onboarding clients, configuring security controls, and developing detections, correlations, and data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS, MIS, or related field.
• 2+ years in an MSSP, MDR, enterprise SOC, or multi-client security environment.
• 3+ years hands-on experience administering or supporting enterprise security platforms.
• 3+ years professional cybersecurity experience.
• Experience supporting complex, distributed, multi-tenant security environments.
• Healthcare security knowledge (HIPAA/HITRUST/NIST) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep technical understanding of tools and processes used to support Fortified Health Security’s managed services.
• Engineer, implement, configure, maintain, and optimize SIEM, EDR/MDR, IoMT, DLP, cloud, network, identity, and related security technologies.
• Partner with clients on onboarding, implementation, configuration, service health reviews, and technical improvements.
• Support multi-tenant MSSP environments with standardized configurations while honoring client-specific requirements.
• Monitor and maintain health, availability, performance, connectivity, and effectiveness of security platforms and integrations.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving agents, APIs, collectors, log forwarding, authentication, networking, and data pipelines.
• Create reusable engineering standards, baselines, templates, and workflows for scalability.
• Travel up to 5% for client engagements and internal collaboration.

Skills

SIEM

EDR/XDR/MDR

Threat Hunting

Automation

Scripting

Log Management

Security Platform Health

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

2+ years MSSP/MDR environment

3+ years enterprise security

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

USM Anywhere

CrowdStrike

Palo Alto Cortex

Job description

Fortified Health Security in Brentwood, TN seeks a Threat Defense Engineer to design, implement, and optimize security technologies across SIEM, EDR/MDR, IoMT, and cloud platforms. The role emphasizes security platform health, telemetry quality, and automation to improve service delivery for multiple clients.

Responsibilities include onboarding clients, configuring security controls, and developing detections, correlations, and data pipelines.