Security Engineer III (Cybersecurity)

Location: Reston, United States

Annual base pay: $152,200–$228,400

Company

hirify.global develops cybersecurity and application delivery solutions that help organizations create, secure, and operate applications across distributed environments.

What you will do

• Design and enhance observability solutions using AI-powered monitoring, telemetry analytics, logging, tracing, and metrics.
• Define system boundaries, critical assets, security controls, and monitoring requirements across cloud-native and hybrid environments.
• Integrate and optimize security telemetry pipelines with SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, APM, cloud-native security tools, and AI-assisted analytics.
• Establish escalation paths, communication workflows, and automated response mechanisms for SOC, incident response, threat detection, vulnerability management, and engineering teams.
• Identify, prioritize, remediate, and validate vulnerabilities while supporting patch management, hardening, and compliance.
• Maintain SIEM deployments and implement Infrastructure as Code, Policy as Code, and Security as Code across cloud environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4–6 years of experience in security operations, monitoring, detection engineering, or incident response.
• Hands-on experience with logging, monitoring, SIEM, and dashboarding tools such as AWS GuardDuty, Sumo Logic, Grafana, CrowdStrike, Datadog, Splunk, or Thycotic.
• Working knowledge of a major cloud platform, including native security and observability services.
• Understanding of telemetry pipelines, including collection, normalization, downstream integration, and alert tuning.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Shell, or another programming or scripting language, plus experience with CI/CD, vulnerability scanning, Kubernetes, or OpenStack.

Nice to have

• Security+, GSEC, CISSP, or similar certification.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP.

Culture & Benefits

• Participation in 24/7 on-call rotations and weekend support as required.
• Incentive compensation, bonuses, restricted stock units, and employee benefits may be available.
• Commitment to equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations.