Senior Security/Threat Engineer at Careers Decisionpointcorp, Remote
Senior Security/Threat Engineer at Careers Decisionpointcorp, remote. Full-time. Est. up to $200k. Apply with swipeandhired.
DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Security/Threat Engineer to provide senior-level leadership and advanced expertise across enterprise cybersecurity monitoring, threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response for systems supporting a federal and DoD-aligned mission environment. This position oversees threat intelligence integration, SIEM analytics, log correlation, ACAS/Nessus scanning, STIG validation, patch compliance verification, and execution of the Continuous Monitoring Plan.
The Senior Security/Threat Engineer plays a critical role in detecting, analyzing, and responding to sophisticated threats while ensuring continuous risk reduction and cybersecurity readiness across mission applications, cloud workloads, and enterprise platforms.
This position is fully remote.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Senior Security/Threat Engineer will:
- Lead enterprise threat monitoring, detection engineering, and cybersecurity analytics functions.
- Oversee ACAS/Nessus scanning operations, vulnerability trending, severity analysis, and remediation coordination.
- Manage SIEM alerting, log correlation, advanced query development, and threat detection tuning.
- Conduct threat hunting activities to identify anomalous behavior, emerging threats, or latent indicators of compromise.
- Validate STIG implementation, patch compliance, and secure configuration baselines across systems.
- Execute and maintain the Continuous Monitoring Plan including scanning schedules, reporting cycles, and compliance verification.
- Develop detection rules, dashboards, and analytic models to strengthen situational awareness and reduce dwell time.
- Support incident response activities including triage, containment, forensic review, and corrective action planning.
- Provide risk-based recommendations to engineering teams based on identified vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or threat trends.
- Produce threat intelligence summaries, vulnerability reports, and continuous monitoring deliverables for government stakeholders.
- Coordinate with cloud engineers, ISSOs, DevSecOps teams, and cybersecurity analysts to maintain a secure operational posture.
- Improve automation for monitoring, scanning, log analysis, and cybersecurity reporting.
- Mentor junior analysts and strengthen enterprise detection and response capabilities.
Qualifications
Clearance Requirement
Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation.
Education (Required)
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