Senior Cyber Defense Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote within the United States, with travel to an Arrow office when requested

Annual hiring range: $121,300–$192,692.50

Company

hirify.global is a technology company offering enterprise products, services, and solutions.

What you will do

• Lead complex cyber incident investigations across enterprise, cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Perform digital forensics, malware analysis, evidence collection, timeline analysis, and investigative reporting.
• Conduct threat hunting and improve SIEM detections, correlation rules, queries, dashboards, and response workflows.
• Support security engineering across SIEM, EDR, NDR, SOAR, cloud security, identity security, and forensic platforms.
• Build scripts, automation, dashboards, and AI-assisted workflows to improve investigation efficiency.
• Mentor security professionals and contribute to incident response playbooks, investigation standards, and threat detection capabilities.

Requirements

• 5–10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, incident response, DFIR, threat hunting, detection engineering, or security operations.
• Experience leading enterprise incident response investigations and handling evidence for forensic, legal, compliance, or regulatory purposes.
• Hands-on experience across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, email, application, and on-premises environments.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows forensics, authentication, persistence, and cloud security.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, forensic tools, scripting, querying, and automation using platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Defender, CrowdStrike, PowerShell, Python, KQL, or SQL.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience; relevant DFIR, incident response, cloud security, red team, or security engineering certifications are valued.

Nice to have

• Experience with threat emulation, red teaming, penetration testing, purple teaming, Atomic Red Team, or adversary simulation.
• Experience supporting legal, compliance, HR, fraud, insider risk, or regulatory investigations.
• Hands-on experimentation with AI-assisted security tools, copilots, security agents, automation, scripting, or personal labs.
• Certifications such as GCFA, GCFE, GCIH, GREM, GCFR, OSCP, CEH, CISSP, or Microsoft security certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement with travel to an Arrow office when requested.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with matching contributions.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance, plus HSA/HRA options.
• Paid sick, holiday, and vacation time.
• Tuition reimbursement and growth opportunities.