Lead Security Engineer

Job Title: Lead Security Engineer

Location : Fort Washington, PA (This is a hybrid role with 3 days on-site in the office and 2 days remote. Only local candidates will be considered.)

Duration : 12+ Months Contract

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Job Description:

The Lead Security Engineer is the senior technical resource on the internal security team. This role owns security engineering standards, leads incident response, and ensures security platforms are properly configured, integrated, and optimized to reduce risk and improve detection and response.

Key Responsibilities

Serve as the technical lead for security operations and incident response

Assist in investigation, containment, and remediation of severity incidents

Design, implement, and tune security controls across identity, endpoint, email, network, and SIEM platforms

Maintain and improve detection quality, response playbooks, and operational documentation

Participate in after-hours on-call rotation and provide escalation leadership

Tooling & Platforms

• ServiceNow (SNOW)
• Palo Alto Firewalls & SASE
• Microsoft Defender
• Microsoft 365 and Azure
• Microsoft Copilot and other AI tools and technologies
• Okta
• Proofpoint
• Cisco Umbrella
• Securonix and/or Microsoft Sentinel
• XM Cyber

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of security engineering or security operations experience
• Strong incident response and remediation background
• Experience designing and maintaining enterprise security controls
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills