Cybersecurity Lead (Cybersecurity)

Location: San Jose, California; hybrid

Targeted compensation: $140,000–$185,000 annually

Company

hirify.global develops networking and cybersecurity solutions for enterprise and production-scale environments.

What you will do

• Lead Blue Team operations, including the management, integration, configuration, and tuning of SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, IDS/IPS, NDR, and threat intelligence platforms.
• Improve security telemetry, log collection, correlation, detection rules, and use cases across endpoints, cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and production systems.
• Coordinate threat hunting, alert triage, incident response playbooks, major incident containment, investigation, and recovery.
• Design and conduct Red Team and purple team adversary-emulation exercises using real-world tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Develop adversary scripts and payloads, report exercise findings, and operationalize defensive improvements with Blue Team engineers.
• Build the roadmap for detection coverage, response automation, control validation, resilience, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of cybersecurity experience with leadership across Blue, Red, or Purple Team operations.
• Enterprise ownership of SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, and threat intelligence platforms.
• Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, the Cyber Kill Chain, threat emulation, incident response, and purple team exercises.
• Deep expertise in endpoint or network forensics, cloud security monitoring, scripting and automation with Python, PowerShell, or Bash, or security engineering in hybrid and production environments.
• Strong communication and leadership skills for working with executives and technical teams.

Nice to have

• OSCP, GCFA, GCIH, GPEN, GXPN, or GCTI certification.
• Experience with enterprise, SaaS, networking, or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
• DevSecOps, CI/CD pipeline security, and cloud-native monitoring experience.
• Experience mentoring Blue Team analysts and managing security tool lifecycles and vendor relationships.
• Familiarity with AttackIQ, Caldera, Scythe, or other purple team automation frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Work at the intersection of offensive and defensive cybersecurity.
• Use adversarial exercises and incident learnings to strengthen real-world organizational resilience.
• The position is hybrid and supports collaboration with both executive stakeholders and technical teams.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and a VEVRAA federal subcontractor.