Security Engineer - New York, NY

Job summary

We are looking for a hands-on and proactive Security Engineer to help strengthen our cybersecurity posture, monitor and respond to threats, and support the day-to-day execution of security controls across the business.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts across infrastructure, endpoints, cloud services, and SaaS applications.
• Investigate security events and support incident response activities, including post-incident reviews.
• Manage and tune threat detection and protection tools (e.g., Microsoft Defender, Entra ID, CrowdStrike, vulnerability scanners).
• Administer and improve security tooling, including endpoint protection, email security, and access control systems.
• Support secure configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud environments (GCP & Azure).
• Automate repeatable security tasks using scripting (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Conduct regular vulnerability scanning and support patch/vulnerability remediation.
• Track emerging threats and integrate intelligence into tooling and processes.
• Maintain asset inventories and support access reviews/privilege audits.
• Contribute to runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation.
• Support audit and compliance activities through evidence gathering and control validation (ISO 27001, CIS, etc.).

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