Security Engineer

## Security Engineer IApply:
Hybrid
- Los Angeles CA:
Hybrid
- Dallas TX:
Hybrid
- Tustin CA:
Hybrid
- Addison, TX:
Full time:
Posted 2 Days Ago:
JR100185

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** A Day in the Life
** The
** Security Engineer I
** is a hands-on technical practitioner responsible for the day-to-day operation of Lendistry’s security monitoring, incident response, and vulnerability management capabilities across corporate IT, cloud, and third-party environments. This role partners closely with the Security Engineer Lead, the SOC and MSSP, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Application Engineering, and GRC to detect threats early, respond quickly, and drive security issues to closure without slowing business velocity.
This role is the first point of coordination for security events and incidents. You will triage and investigate alerts, run incident response playbooks, document and communicate incident status, and track corrective actions through to completion, while supporting vulnerability remediation and audit readiness. The ideal candidate is curious, detail-oriented, and eager to grow into deeper technical and incident leadership responsibilities.
** Lendistry:
Who We Are
** We’re proud to be the nation’s largest minority-led, tech-savvy lender for small businesses and commercial real estate.  As a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Community Development Entity (CDE), our mission is all about creating economic opportunities and fueling growth for small business owners and their communities.  Join us as we pave the way with innovative financing and financial education!
** What You’ll Be Doing
*** Monitor, triage, and investigate security alerts from SIEM, EDR, email security, and cloud-native tools, escalating confirmed threats to the Security Engineer Lead
* Act as first responder and incident coordinator, executing incident response playbooks through detection, containment, eradication, and recovery
* Maintain incident records, timelines, and evidence; facilitate post-incident reviews and track corrective actions to closure
* Provide timely incident status updates to IT, Legal, Compliance, and leadership, following established escalation paths
* Partner with the SOC and MSSP providers to validate alerts, refine escalation procedures, and improve response quality
* Develop, maintain, and test incident response playbooks and runbooks; support tabletop exercises
* Tune SIEM and EDR detection rules and policies to reduce false positives and improve detection coverage
* Operate vulnerability scanning tools, validate findings, and…